All Rights Reserved. We don't compare to the Source Material and we don't have to do so in this case. The first ten minutes or so of Once in The Life are so utterly confusing that even as the story stabilizes, it's too late for a viewer to connect to the principal characters and care about the goings on.
Torch is a junkie.
Except for the one time it doesn't . . . If the film had kept it to that, there would have been no confusion. Well, that's what I thought I saw. According to the press notes, Tony is Rivera's stooge as well, instructed to revenge the death of his boss' nephew, who was killed in the heist. We remember the heist.