A guy is freed from jail after spending there several years following a robbery. His welcome party organized by the former gang members, who escaped the police but without the stolen diamonds disappeared without trace, is not a nice one. The reunion is organized by the group leader in a context taken from the Yakuza customs (even though we don't have any Japanese present) = a dinner with sushi served on a nude woman, inert, whose presence is meant to be purely "decorative". It's somehow predictable that the person will get out of her role, and at some point it's sort of obvious why is she there. Which I actually said already when I've placed this in the "revenge thriller" genre...
It's clearly a B movie with a low budget. Unfortunately it tries to compensate that with some excessive violence. Well ... maybe I started to get old and my stress level rejects some scenes, but I really think that if we would have less blood spilled we won't lose anything. In any case, the movie has some good points. On one hand we have Tony Todd as the main villain, a role that he played so often that's even hard to not be a good performance. On the other hand we have "the sushi girl", or more exactly her complete absence until the end, despite the fact she's there. She's so absent that you forget her, which is really what seems to be her official role in the scenes. And that actually helps for building some surprise effect for what's supposed to be "the final twist". Unfortunately not one that's really credible ... but well, it's a movie :) ...
Rating: 3 out of 5
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