Original Release Date: 9 December 2006
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tagline:
- May the best hitman win.
- The hit goes down 2007.
- Let There Be Blood
- Nobody gets away clean.
- The Only Way To Even The Score... Is To Take Buddy Israel Out Of The Game
- When you're worth $1 million dead, you don't have long to live.
- He just met ten hitmen after his own heart.
- The hit goes down January 26.
Filming Locations:
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- South Lake Tahoe, California, USA
- Stox Restaurant & Bakery - 9518 Imperial Hwy., Rockwell Defense Plant - Bellflower & Imperial Highway, Downey, California, USA
Company:
- Universal Pictures (presents)
- Studio Canal (in association with) (as Studiocanal)
- Relativity Media (in association with)
- Working Title Films (producer)
- Scion Films (in association with)
Budget: $17,000,000
Gross revenue: $54,541,205
Plot Summary
Las Vegas magician and wannabe gangster Buddy "Aces" Israel is hiding
out in a Lake Tahoe hotel penthouse with his entourage, while his agent, Morris
Mecklen, discusses a potential immunity deal with Deputy Director Locke of
the FBI. Agents Messner and Carruthers learn that mob boss Primo Sparrazza
has put a hit out on Israel worth one million dollars involving a mysterious
assassin known as the Swede, with the added stipulation that he bring him
Israel's heart as well. A number of assassins are also after the reward, including
Lazlo Soot, a Hungarian who specializes in disguises and impersonations; Sharice
Watters and Georgia Sykes, a duo of hitwomen hired by Sparazza's underboss;
Pasquale Acosta, a torture expert and mercenary; and the psychotic neo-Nazi
Tremor brothers.
Locke dispatches Messner and Carruthers to take Israel into custody when
the deal is struck. A team of bail bondsmen, Jack Dupree and his partners,
"Pistol" Pete Deeks and Hollis Elmore, have been hired by the
firm that posted Israel's bail. The bondsmen are attacked by the Tremors
and only Elmore escapes alive. Messner is dispatched to the murder scene
while Caruthers proceeds to Israel. Meanwhile, each of the assassins gain
access to the hotel in their own various ways.
Carruthers encounters Acosta, disguised as a security officer, in an elevator
at the hotel, he senses something is not right and both are disabled in
a gunfight. Meanwhile, Soot gains access to the penthouse by posing as one
of Israel's henchmen. Israel's second-in-command, Ivy, learns that Israel
agreed to give him up as part of the plea deal, but, before he can kill
him, Israel injuries Ivy long enough for the hotel security team to restrain
him. Georgia stumbles upon Carruthers and Acosta in the elevator, but assumes
Acosta is Soot. In Los Angeles, Locke abruptly backs out on the deal with
Israel and orders that Messner and Carruthers not be told. The Tremor brothers
reach the penthouse floor, where they engage in a shootout with the security
team while Israel, learning of the FBI's new position, attempts suicide.
Messner arrives at the hotel and sets up a position around Georgia's elevator.
Sharice provides cover from another hotel with a .50-caliber, M82 sniper
rifle, outgunning the FBI agents. Acosta, still alive, shoots Georgia, but
is shot by Carruthers. Sharice, thinking Georgia is dead, refuses to escape
and keeps shooting at the FBI team. Georgia escapes to the penthouse, where
she stops Darwin Tremor before he can kill Ivy. Tremor escapes, and Messner,
distraught over the death of Carruthers, stops Ivy and Georgia on the stairwell,
but lets them escape. Sharice, seeing the pair alive and free through her
rifle scope, is gunned down by the FBI.
Locke and a team of FBI agents descend on the penthouse and take Israel
to the hospital - Soot escapes by tearing off his disguise. Acosta, carted
away on a gurney, is also shown to be alive. Darwin Tremor tries to escape,
but is gunned down by Hollis Elmore.
Messner arrives at the hospital and learns the truth about the day's events
from Locke. The mysterious Swede actually is a prominent heart surgeon and
Soot was hired by Sparazza to get Israel's heart, so it could be transplanted
into the body of Sparazza. Sparazza is further revealed to be Freeman Heller,
an FBI agent who went undercover and was thought to have been killed by
the mob. Sparazza has agreed to expose the mob's operations in exchange
for Israel's heart, who is shown to be Sparazza's love child and, thus,
the most compatible donor.
Messner, furious over the unnecessary deaths, especially Carruthers', protests
and is ordered to leave the hospital. Instead, he walks into the emergency
room, locks the doors, and pulls the plug on both men. He then lays his
gun and badge on the floor and sits in disbelief as Locke and the doctors
desperately try to break in.
Facts & Trivia
The Tremor brothers car is a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville.
Goofs
Crew or equipment visible: When the Tremor brothers are in the elevator,
trying to escape with a chain saw, there is a close up on the tallest member.
When this happens, you can see the camera reflected behind him in the upper
side of the elevator roof, in the shining material.
Continuity: Darwin lifts his left hand to open Jack Dupree's eyes, in
the next shot his right hand is holding the eyes open.
Continuity: When the Tremor's roll down their windows to shoot the Bailbonds
men, Darwin is seen with some sort of band on his left wrist. When he gets
out of the car both of his arms are bare.
Continuity: The Tremor's shoot-up the Bailbonds men in the parking lot,
bullets flying everywhere from automatic weapons. Later we see that whilst
the Bailbonds men's car has smashed windows, there are no signs of any bullet
hits to the body of the car.
Quotes
Hollis Elmore: You shot me, and you murdered my friends...
and you dumped us in the lake.
Darwin Tremor: Pretty much.
Darwin Tremor: [manipulating Dupree's mouth so Jack seems
to be speaking to him] Oh hell yeah, we was just at the wrong place at the
wrong time, so don't feel so bad, chief.
Darwin Tremor: Sometimes, fate just... fate just up-and-fucks
you for no good reason. That the way'a the world! The way it's always gonna
be. Alright then, peace bro.
[begins to walk away]
Hollis Elmore: [looks at key on his injured hand] Fuck
this.
[shoots Darwin Tremor as he walks away]
Darwin Tremor: [an elevator opens to reveal Georgia, in
a hooker get-up, to the Tremor brothers] I'm going down.
Darwin Tremor: Yeah, I bet you are.
Georgia Sykes: [doors closing]
[kisses middle finger]
Georgia Sykes: Faggot-ass redneck...
Darwin Tremor: [manipulating Dupree's mouth so Jack seems
to be speaking to him] Don't worry, I forgive you Darwin.
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