City of Industry

REVIEW
Keitel is Roy Egan, a retired criminal brought into one last jewel heist by his brother Lee (Hutton). To realize the American Dream of the last big score, Lee calls in Skip Kovich (Dorff), whose edgy near-psychosis and lack of allegiance sharply contrast with both Roy, a centered old warrior and Lee, a journeyman thief worried about mom going into a nursing home. Planned with precision and executed with exactly orchestrated violence, the job goes as planned. But Skip is greedy. Roy literally crawls away from death to scour the infested maze of L.A. in a personal quest for vengeance and honor. Director Irvin seeds the violence with small personal moments which reveal intimate aspects of the protagonists' personalities, humanizing a world in which grand theft auto, gun sales in parking lots, and jail terms are a way of life. Immersed in a desperate milieu, the film is an examination of a man alone, shouldering the burden of retribution, propelled by a pristine desire for absolute justice. An intriguing character study adeptly handled by the cast.