I thought it refreshing to see Kyra Sedgwick in a grittier role. If you can get past the near-incessant violence, it's not an altogether bad movie, with an interesting supporting cast, especially Stanley Tucci in a truly standout performance, the best I've seen of his acting to date, and really makes the film better than it probably deserves. The movie is worth seeing just for his bit. He and Sedgwick have good chemistry as criminal colleagues who love each other. It's also good to see a movie where two women from different corners of the criminal world (the boss's girlfriend and the boss's hitwoman) band together, albeit reluctantly. It's also nice to see the girlfriend, despite the cliche name, with some brain. (Do these last 2 points have anything to do with the movie's female director? I'll bet!) Without Tucci, however, I wouldn't recommend the movie so wholeheartedly.
