***SPOILERS*** Totally ridicules combination romance/horror movie with the horribly disfigured former Miami cabin boy Alan Riply, Joseph Fieness, waiting 14 long years to get his revenge against indited US Congressman Mark Brice, Roy Liotta. It was Brice who had Alan's faced rearranged with a shogun blast from his paid goons after he refused to deist in carrying on his romance with Brice's wife Ella, Gretchen Mol.
After 14 years and with a dozen or so skin graphs Alan is now back as big time financier for the mob Manuel Esqueala to get Brice out of the hole he dug himself into; Taking kickbacks from the mob and not reporting them to the IRS. Little does Brice know is that Alan or Manuel is really out to screw him both out of his money as well as wife Ella. It's with Ella who by now doesn't recognize Alan from Mount. Rushmore whom he now plans to start up the relationship he had with her back in sunny Florida as well as Yonkers New York, the district the Brice represents in the US Congress, some 14 years ago!
The film storyline is just too much to take as well as believe in Ella not for once recognizing her former lover Alan even though his good,the left, side of his mug or face didn't change a bit since she was kissing it before he got whacked by her husband's goons. Criminal mastermind, in masterminding this entire scene, Alan himself isn't all that bright either in him exposing himself to Brice to who he really is his wife's former lover. That's in Alan by demanding that the fee that Brice pays him besides money for keeping him from being sent up the river and serve hard time in a federal penitentiary, instead of serving easy time in a country club like federal correctional facility, would be his wife Ella!
***SPOILERS*** Confusing final ending with an outraged and humiliated Brice not at all caring if he lives or dies out to kill both Alan and his cheating wife Ella as well as himself and royally screwing everything up instead. Or so it seemed since the ending was so confusing like the rest of the movie that we in the audience didn't really get what happened in the film never explaining if those involved in this turkey survived or not before the ending credits!
After 14 years and with a dozen or so skin graphs Alan is now back as big time financier for the mob Manuel Esqueala to get Brice out of the hole he dug himself into; Taking kickbacks from the mob and not reporting them to the IRS. Little does Brice know is that Alan or Manuel is really out to screw him both out of his money as well as wife Ella. It's with Ella who by now doesn't recognize Alan from Mount. Rushmore whom he now plans to start up the relationship he had with her back in sunny Florida as well as Yonkers New York, the district the Brice represents in the US Congress, some 14 years ago!
The film storyline is just too much to take as well as believe in Ella not for once recognizing her former lover Alan even though his good,the left, side of his mug or face didn't change a bit since she was kissing it before he got whacked by her husband's goons. Criminal mastermind, in masterminding this entire scene, Alan himself isn't all that bright either in him exposing himself to Brice to who he really is his wife's former lover. That's in Alan by demanding that the fee that Brice pays him besides money for keeping him from being sent up the river and serve hard time in a federal penitentiary, instead of serving easy time in a country club like federal correctional facility, would be his wife Ella!
***SPOILERS*** Confusing final ending with an outraged and humiliated Brice not at all caring if he lives or dies out to kill both Alan and his cheating wife Ella as well as himself and royally screwing everything up instead. Or so it seemed since the ending was so confusing like the rest of the movie that we in the audience didn't really get what happened in the film never explaining if those involved in this turkey survived or not before the ending credits!