The read
Audiences rate it 27 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 27 points higher than critics do.
60 audience votes
Key crew
- Richard MarvinOriginal Music Composer
- Richard GreenbergDirector
- Wally NicholsScreenplay
- Richard GreenbergScreenplay
Cast
- Kiefer SutherlandArthur Banks
- Melora WaltersBennie Harper
- Jamey SheridanAgent George Scanlon
- Leslie StefansonAgent Donna Marbury
- Bill SageAgent Davis
- Keith DiamondAgent Robinson
- Shawn WoodsLarson
- Christopher BershThug in Black
- Rachel TicotinDora
- Beth GrantLou
- Alan GelfantByron Sadowski
- Brent RoamConcierge