A mostly pedestrian crime movie, featuring a lackluster cast that includes Brad Pitt as a mob cleaner-upper, James Gandolfini as another cleaner-upper, who needs cleaning up himself, and an assortment of other foul-mouthed characters who do little more than sit around and swear a lot.
Ray Liotta just seems to get beaten up, and look beaten.
The story, if you can call it that, revolves around a mob-sponsored poker game that gets robbed by a couple of no-hopers, who then need dispatching. Pitt gets called in to do that dispatching.
The dialog is dragged out, as is most of the action.
The constant backdrop, provided by TVs that seem to be everywhere - at the airport, in bars, in hotel rooms, and in the poker game - is of the 2008 McCain versus Obama election. I don't know why. It didn't add anything other than an excuse to tie the events to a date. That date was irrelevant to the story, so the backdrop was just annoying.
All in all it was slightly better than staying in and watching Saturday night TV. But not much.
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