False Premises to Begin and a too-clever Story

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2011)

This was supposed to be a "clever" con movie but it had too much gratuitous violence for the ensemble cast. I was struck by the mistakes at the beginning when the bet was made and the bettor was warned direly about the consequences of not paying. Now I believe that when you make a bet such as $20,000 you will be required to lay that amount of money down on the bet. There was also "juice" called for but whether or not one would have to put that down too escapes me. But let us assume it was not advanced, then the bad people went after the bettor, his wife and his son for $2,000, which does not seem believable.
So we have that mistake and then how did the bad people find his house to kill his wife? And how did Bruce Willis' character find his son in a crowded parking lot? The story was too clever for its own good.