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For Tes (Akerman) and her two cohorts Kara (Nikki Reed) and Tara (Deborah Ann Woll), the job sounded simple enough: intercept a double-cross drug shipment for their crime boss Mel (Willis) at an isolated diner. But when an unstoppable chain of events unfolds, everyone soon realizes no one is who they seem and the job may be something other than eliminating the competition. What started as simple instructions has now turned into a deadly cat-and-mouse game – with large guns pointed at everyone.
Nikki Reed and Deborah Ann Woll play young lovelies with guns who are not afraid to use them. As the film opens they are on some kind of mission for a drug lord (Bruce Willis, nicely odd) that lands them in a diner, where their holdup plans don’t go so well.Then the script (by Aaron Harvey, who also directed) starts jumping around in time, giving us glimpses of how this ill-fated moment came about. Forest Whitaker turns up with an itchy trigger finger and a goofy accent, and the double crosses start piling up along with the bodies.
Mr. Harvey doesn’t provide quite enough wit to make this consistently entertaining or quite enough character development to make you root for or against anyone. The film also burns a lot of time on a guns-drawn three-way standoff, the kind of scene that probably looks good on the page but never does sustain tension on the screen. Then, blam blam blam, the tale ends. Someone emerges as the victor. You probably won’t care who.