A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.
Acting
Lou Diamond Phillips commits fully to unhinged desperation.
Production
El Cortez hotel location has genuine seedy Vegas texture.
Writing
Twisty plot keeps you guessing who's scamming whom.
Director
Stephen Purvis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed at the actual El Cortez hotel in downtown Las Vegas, one of the oldest continuously operating casino-hotels in the city, giving it authentic faded-glory atmosphere no set could replicate.
This barely-released 2006 neo-noir arrived at the exact moment mid-budget adult thrillers were being murdered by superhero franchises—making it a time capsule of a dying Hollywood ecosystem.
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