Then they burn the place to hide the crime. Which is how De Niro and Burns arrive on the scene. Holed up in a fleabag hotel and fed a steady TV diet of Jerry, Sally and Maury, Emil has a moneymaking idea. Something about the justice system, the insanity plea and double jeopardy. I love America, he says with a grin.
Nobody is guilty.
That s where Grammer comes in. The killers need the publicity and he s glad to supply it in exchange for exclusivity. The combo of viciousness and dark humor is straight from the Quentin Tarantino school, and the thugs are like bloodstained variations on the characters in Jim Jarmusch s Stranger Than Paradise. You can t help but respond when he s onscreen. Meanwhile, Grammer struggles to give texture to a one-note clich .