Prime Suspect 4 and
Inspector Morse director
John Madden comes back to the world of crime after a brief foray into romance with
Shakespeare in Love and
Captain Corelli's Mandolin with this adaptation of pulp icon
Elmore Leonard's novel concerning a real estate agent and her husband (
Thomas Jane) who become the targets of two relentless mafia hitmen. When real estate agent Carmen Colson (
Diane Lane) catches a glimpse of a hitman named the Blackbird (
Mickey Rourke) as he carries out a job, a subsequent request for her to testify against the aging gun for hire soon lands both Carmen and her husband, Wayne (
Thomas Jane), in the Witness Protection Program. Blackbird isn't a man who likes to leave loose ends when it comes to his work, though, and now as the seasoned assassin and his psychotic partner (
Joseph Gordon-Levitt) attempt to catch the couple in their crosshairs, Carmen and Wayne are going to need much more than a few federal agents to make it out of increasingly deadly situation alive. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide