A distinctly quirky latter-day Bonnie and Clyde, with Clyde coming in the form of John Wisdom, played rather glumly by Estevez. Wisdom has a record - he stole a car in a drunken spree when 19. Now that conviction disqualifies him from all but the most menial jobs. Inspired by a TV programme about banks foreclosing on farmers and small businessman unable to maintain their mortgage payments, Wisdom decides to do something positive with his life. He buys a powerful automatic rifle with the money he has saved for a car, and starts to hold up banks - not to steal money, but to burn their mortgage records. His girlfriend (Moore), at first his unsuspecting getaway driver, soon begins to believe in his cause while, to half the population of America, Wisdom becomes some kind of folk hero. The film starts slowly, then picks up speed with the robberies, combining elements of comedy, weepie and action film before a resolution flawed with illogicality. On the whole, Estevez, who also scripted, allowed rather too much footage to emerge from the cutting-room.

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