directed by Peter Medak
Jack Grimaldi (Oldman) is a crooked cop. He sells information on the location of a mob informant to the mob. They send Mona Demarkov (Olin), one of their best enforcers, to deal with the informant. She kills not only the informant but also four FBI agents who were guarding the informant. Grimaldi doesn't like it but what can he do?
The whole story gets a little weird and then a lot weird from this point out. Things happen without logical explanations, lots of things. They don't all happen at once but the accumulation of them over the course of the movie make it feel like a fever dream of some sort.
Demarkov gets picked up by the police. How did she get caught? Grimaldi is assigned to hand her over to the FBI? Coincidence or did he volunteer for this assignment? She later escapes from the FBI. How? She cuts a deal with him to fake her own death. She cuts her arm off. Jack gets one of his toes cut off. Jack separately sends Natalie (Annabella Sciorra), his wife, and Sheri (Juliette Lewis), his mistress, away for their own safeties. His mistress returns and he is tricked into killing her by Demarkov. There's more craziness in this vein. This movie makes very little sense when you try to assemble all the pieces.
There are a number of actors whom I recognize in small roles: David Proval, Roy Schneider, Michael Wincott, Tont Sirico.
I saw this years ago on VHS or DVD. If it was DVD it was at least 15 years ago. If it was VHS then it might be more like 20-25 years ago. I didn't recall much about it other than the fact that Gary Oldman and Lena Olin were in it and that it was a crime movie of some sort.
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