A stylish, darkly comic thriller, with creepy old Christopher Walken as a New York gang boss taken hostage by a bunch of rich kids. The sister of one of the group has been kidnapped, and Walken has been chosen as the bait to secure her release, for his criminal connections as well as his cash. But while foul-tongued Mafia foot soldier Denis Leary does the legwork, Walken, despite being tied to a chair, works on sewing the seeds of doubt and mistrust amongst his captors.