After many years of being away, U.S. Marine Nelson Sanchez, who after being involved in a shooting against a drug dealer, flees from his hometown, makes his mind and returns, where he struggles against facing that dealer that insists on revenge.
Sincere, sometimes brief performances - including those of John Leguizamo as a disabled veteran, and Julia Stiles as the bitter wife of Nelson's nemesis - lend necessary oomph to a narrative that can, at times, verge on sleepy.