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Rating: 4/10 (11 February 2017)

The beginning is quite confusing as is the entire plot which doesn't seem to unwind until the end of the movie.
They may have been nice guys, but the film certainly isn't.
An over-weight Russell Crowe plays an enforcer like guy who teams up with Ryan Gosling, a young widower with a daughter. Gosling smokes enough in the film for a life-time and is always hitting the bottle. The daughter, a precocious young teen, always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time which is good for people she saves.
The story would have been better to emphasize the effects of those Michigan car emissions is smog filled Los Angeles. Instead, we have a story of a corrupt government female officer whose daughter makes a trashy film depicting what is going on in that particular industry.
Everyone associated with the film is eradicated and there is enough shooting, smashing of windows and cars to last more than a life-time.