Dick Kanipsia (James Caan) gets released from prison. His friend Harry brings him to his rundown home where he gets killed in a hail of bullets. With his dying breath, he tells Dick about a stolen loot, Barry Fenaka (Peter Boyle), and Vicent Palmer before blowing up the house. He encounters free spirit Kitty Kopetzky (Sally Kellerman) but runs away when she turns out to be an unstable armed robber. He finds Fenaka and his wife who drives him on the search for Palmer and the stolen loot with an Airstream trailer. They find that they're being followed by two black vans.
I like the initial chemistry of the unstableness of Kellerman with the scruffy goodness of James Caan. When she goes away for awhile, the movie stalls. I expect Boyle to deliver humor but they're not actually laughs. It's a little quirky with a good helping of 70s grunge. I'd prefer Kellerman and Caan to stay together the whole way riding the emotional rollercoaster. Instead, the sexual heat dissipates. There is the high tension thriller aspect but it never really elevates. The villains follow him at arms' length. They're like menacing mimes. They try to kill him at the same time that they're bad at it. It's half trying to be funny or half trying to be thrilling. I'm not sure it achieves either.
I like the initial chemistry of the unstableness of Kellerman with the scruffy goodness of James Caan. When she goes away for awhile, the movie stalls. I expect Boyle to deliver humor but they're not actually laughs. It's a little quirky with a good helping of 70s grunge. I'd prefer Kellerman and Caan to stay together the whole way riding the emotional rollercoaster. Instead, the sexual heat dissipates. There is the high tension thriller aspect but it never really elevates. The villains follow him at arms' length. They're like menacing mimes. They try to kill him at the same time that they're bad at it. It's half trying to be funny or half trying to be thrilling. I'm not sure it achieves either.