In an incident, crime scene photographer Wayne Dobie, or Mad Dog, inadvertently saves the life of a mob boss named Frank Milo. In return, Milo allows Mad Dog to have one week with his servent Glory. After an awkward start, Mad Dog and Glory soon fall in love and make the decision to run away from the crime boss.
Throw Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman and Bill Murray together in a Universal Pictures movie and what do you get? Something that starts off at a beautiful clip before back-pedaling like crazy into a risk-free happy ending.
An almost unconscionably enjoyable movie that plays like something conceived by a contemporary, furiously hip Damon Runyon.
EmanuelLevy.Com
August 21, 2006
An original if incoherent fable about the intricate relationships between a cop, a girl, and a gangster whose tone shifts radically from scene to scene, unable to reconcile between the story's softer love elements and its harder urban edges.
DeNiro can play a complete wimp and Murray can play a heavy--who knew?
Film4
October 05, 2008
The film's main sin seems to be its indecision as to whether it is a black comedy, a satire, a thriller or a love story. It's none of the above. Just tedious.
