Bello's Rosie the Wonder Whore is almost laughable. Gregg Henry spends the movie trying to do a bad impression of Michael Masden in Reservoir Dogs . It's almost sad that the best support Mel gets comes from old-timers James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson. Kris is becoming quite a good nasty, as seen in Lone Star and, briefly, here. His voice carries it a lot, and he has that bad weathered look.
Problem is, neither are in the movie long enough.
Same goes for William Devane, who's made a second career out of his high-class thug routine, both on TV and in movies. That only leaves minor roles to be memorable, if at all. And John Glover pops up as yet another weasel. She gets to shine as a dominatrix who goes plum wiggly when a customer of hers gets threatened by a gun. It's a script full of cheats and back doors to begin with, and Helgeland's three-sided storytelling only makes it worse.