Love Ray Liotta (R. I. P) and will watch anything he is in as well as Taye Diggs and LL Cool, but the script or maybe the editing got lost in itself.
Liotta is a DA running for Mayor. His girlfriend, an assistant DA, comes in to the police station and reports that she just shot someone who she briefly met and was stalking her and raped her so she killed him. Then enter LL Cool who tells a different story where the girlfriend was living with the victim.
Then come the many plot twists that don't make any sense to the story line. Such as a cocktail party where they are all present and the victim is suddenly called in to someone's office and given $50,000 to kill Liotta;s character. They call him Rupert which is not his name and he is too scared to tell them he is not Rupert. The girlfriend tells him that she pointed him out as Rupert telling him that she wanted to give him some money so he could get away. His character is useless to the plot twist. Could have left him out altogether.
Then you see the victim and the girlfriend making love and in walk the thugs of the crimelord who gave him the money and supposedly since Liotta's character wasn't killed, they kill the victim.
The story line is supposedly spun around some illegal real estate deals. Meanwhile, Liotta has been trying to nab a king pin who he has never seen but supposedly has been doing the usual illegal activities somehow tied up in the real estate and other activities named Danny.
So Liotta doesn't know who to believe as far as shooting the victim and is trying to figure out who Danny really is. As inept as they are they can't figure out who LLCool J's character really is. REALLY? They have a name and they have him in the police station and no system has both a picture and a name???/ Really??
Then we are introduced to Taye Diggs' character who is in jail. Liotta's character questions him about the girlfriend and shows him LL Cool J in the interrogation room and Diggs's character identifies LL Cool J's character as the elusive Danny.
Then the girlfriend is finally brought out into the hallway of the police station and she sees Diggs's character and screams something like "Danny they have it.........' leading Liotta to believe that Diggs is Danny. Diggs starts to run making everyone think he is in fact Danny and Liotta shoots him dead.
Liotta goes back to LLCool J's character and asks him who he really is and LL pulls out an FBI badge. Never clear why Diggs' character ran other than he thinks the DA will believe the girlfriend that he is in fact Danny.
So LL Cool's character unravels the story how the girlfriend was really Danny's girlfriend and she helped Danny with all the illegal activities, but toooooooo late she already left and is on the run.
Then you see LL Cool J's character having a conversation with the real Danny who turns out to have posed as a journalist trying to get a story from Liotta's character. During this conversation the viewer is lead to believe that Danny had the FBI in his pocket until the next scene where you see Danny being handcuffed and taken away.
There is also another subplot where there is something supposedly going to happen at 5AM. Too much detail around this subplot to go into here, but it turns out there is a gas leak and Liotta's character thinks its the gas leak in the city that was discovered and runs back to the site only to run into the gas man who says its all been taken care of and the gas man gets into his truck and places his clip board on the dash and the name on the clipboard is Rupert. Then two blocks away an explosion happens but the tenants have been evacuated. This was a 'gimme' from the king pin to serve as a distraction.
I shortened a lot of the story to just gloss the main events but still a mess.
The story ends with Liotta's character looking totally duped and decides to give up the DA office along with the run for Mayor.
Liotta is a DA running for Mayor. His girlfriend, an assistant DA, comes in to the police station and reports that she just shot someone who she briefly met and was stalking her and raped her so she killed him. Then enter LL Cool who tells a different story where the girlfriend was living with the victim.
Then come the many plot twists that don't make any sense to the story line. Such as a cocktail party where they are all present and the victim is suddenly called in to someone's office and given $50,000 to kill Liotta;s character. They call him Rupert which is not his name and he is too scared to tell them he is not Rupert. The girlfriend tells him that she pointed him out as Rupert telling him that she wanted to give him some money so he could get away. His character is useless to the plot twist. Could have left him out altogether.
Then you see the victim and the girlfriend making love and in walk the thugs of the crimelord who gave him the money and supposedly since Liotta's character wasn't killed, they kill the victim.
The story line is supposedly spun around some illegal real estate deals. Meanwhile, Liotta has been trying to nab a king pin who he has never seen but supposedly has been doing the usual illegal activities somehow tied up in the real estate and other activities named Danny.
So Liotta doesn't know who to believe as far as shooting the victim and is trying to figure out who Danny really is. As inept as they are they can't figure out who LLCool J's character really is. REALLY? They have a name and they have him in the police station and no system has both a picture and a name???/ Really??
Then we are introduced to Taye Diggs' character who is in jail. Liotta's character questions him about the girlfriend and shows him LL Cool J in the interrogation room and Diggs's character identifies LL Cool J's character as the elusive Danny.
Then the girlfriend is finally brought out into the hallway of the police station and she sees Diggs's character and screams something like "Danny they have it.........' leading Liotta to believe that Diggs is Danny. Diggs starts to run making everyone think he is in fact Danny and Liotta shoots him dead.
Liotta goes back to LLCool J's character and asks him who he really is and LL pulls out an FBI badge. Never clear why Diggs' character ran other than he thinks the DA will believe the girlfriend that he is in fact Danny.
So LL Cool's character unravels the story how the girlfriend was really Danny's girlfriend and she helped Danny with all the illegal activities, but toooooooo late she already left and is on the run.
Then you see LL Cool J's character having a conversation with the real Danny who turns out to have posed as a journalist trying to get a story from Liotta's character. During this conversation the viewer is lead to believe that Danny had the FBI in his pocket until the next scene where you see Danny being handcuffed and taken away.
There is also another subplot where there is something supposedly going to happen at 5AM. Too much detail around this subplot to go into here, but it turns out there is a gas leak and Liotta's character thinks its the gas leak in the city that was discovered and runs back to the site only to run into the gas man who says its all been taken care of and the gas man gets into his truck and places his clip board on the dash and the name on the clipboard is Rupert. Then two blocks away an explosion happens but the tenants have been evacuated. This was a 'gimme' from the king pin to serve as a distraction.
I shortened a lot of the story to just gloss the main events but still a mess.
The story ends with Liotta's character looking totally duped and decides to give up the DA office along with the run for Mayor.