The life of Foley, who has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his best friend, who after being released, he makes his mind to go straight, has been turned upside down, when the son of his dead friend manipulates him to make a grift.
[Jackson's] doleful revenant is in almost every scene, and this hardworking actor seems to know that the film around him should be a light-footed caper instead of a grim noir with a side order of deviance.
What could have been an intriguing character study about redemption turns into an absurd series of eye-rolling plot twists that makes it impossible to take this mess seriously.
