With his brother near death in the hospital and his father a marked man, Bobby finally decides to go confidential informant for the police. Of course he gets discovered, and a bloody, brutal gunfight ensues. Of course Nezhinski escapes and vows to get his revenge against the entire family.

If that's not lame enough for you, it gets worse. Albert is killed in a high-speed chase trying to protect Bobby and his girlfriend, played by Eva Mendes. She is utterly forgettable in this movie save for the blatant nipple shot in the film's opening scene. With one brother having been wounded and his father murdered, Bobby the former nightclub man is provisionally deputized by the NYPD and allowed to join the case with his grieving and recovered brother. That stretches the bonds of plausibility way too far for me. We don't know that Bobby has priors and maybe he doesn't, but I can't believe NYPD would bring a civilian in and let him track his family's nemesis on a provisional basis with no actual police training. My disbelief just doesn't extend that far.

At this point, just as I've almost entirely disengaged from the film I became really glad I bothered to get my Dolby Digital set correctly. In the film's climactic scene, Bobby stalks Nezhinsky through a marsh. The sound mix is excellent here and the sounds of predator and prey are bounced around the different speaker channels as reeds and underbrush are moved aside during the chase. It's an effective use of the technology and adds to an otherwise pedestrian finale. To the film's credit, the action ends crisply and there is no agonizing chase between two mortally wounded adversaries.

The film looks very sharp in its Blu-Ray presentation. The loud, red shirt Bobby wears at the beginning of the movie looks crisp on screen. The scene where Bobby is first asked for help by his family takes place in a Catholic sanctuary. It's well lit and visually pleasing even if it is nothing spectacular. The scenes of graphic violence appear much more graphic with the enhanced resolution and actually look quite good, if you care about that sort of thing.

If you've read this far you might be under the impression that the movie is awful or that I just hated it. That's not true. It's not bad; it's just not very good nor is it particularly original. These three leading men are all fine actors and do their best to make the material hold up. It's to their credit the film holds your interest as long as it does. I paid $5 to rent it at Blockbuster and I don't feel like my money was wasted. I got a chance to finally see a movie on Blu-Ray. Unfortunately that was probably more impressive to me than the film itself.