Well-connected and fiercely uncompromising businesswoman Liberty Wallace (Fiorentino, Men In Black) is about to start making compromises.

Being chained to a bomb-rigged hot dog cart in a busy city square with a high-powered rifle aimed right at you tends to have that effect.

She is there because the sniper (Wesley Snipes) has called to say her actor lover is currently hooked up to a similar device in his dressing room at a nearby theatre, so he won't be entertaining her anytime soon.

As time runs out, Liberty learns that working for, and being married to, a ruthless arms magnate (Oliver Platt) comes with consequences - it may be legal, but people die from the right to bear arms.

How many more deaths is she going to take responsibility for? It's her call.

Playing out in 'real time', High Noon-style, this is an unpredictable and superior thriller bursting with hair-trigger tension.

Canadian director Kari Skogland has a strong viewpoint on guns and gun control and makes no bones about it.

You might expect another Wesley Snipes action film but what you get is a Wesley Snipes ACTING film.

This audacious drama combines action scenes with tense, intelligent dialogue, providing an intriguing change-of-pace for star Snipes, who proves his worth.