Character actors James Gandolfini and Peter Stormare play their usual scumbag roles with great skill. Both were stretches from their normal duties. But another character is played by an actor who always plays a scumbag. And the plot twist involving his character lacks the narrative surprise the film would like it to have. Director Joel Schumacher is a director with confounding inconsistency.
Evil can spring up in anyone at any time and that's just how things are.
It's a pessimistic outlook, but it might be truer than we like to believe.