Gunshy

Gunshy

1998 · 100 min · EN · R · 5.4 (27 votes)
Dir. Jeff Celentano · Starring William L. Petersen, Michael Wincott, Diane Lane, Kevin Gage, R. Lee Ermey, Meat Loaf

“Cold-blooded killers.”

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When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.

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This feels like a descent into a shadowy world of bad decisions and dangerous liaisons. It's a cynical, gritty ride through moral decay, where desperate souls find themselves entangled in a web of crime and ill-fated romance. The atmosphere is thick with tension and a sense of impending doom, all wrapped in a classic neo-noir package.

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