If you fancy 100 minutes of almost total boredom, but in the company of a great cast, this could be the film for you. Three inept robbers (Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner) set off an alarm and flee the premises, accidentally killing three federal agents on their way to a 'speakeasy' bar, inhabited not only by the local low-life, but by the fugitive gun-runner the agents were hunting. Sounds action-packed - and, for the first five minutes, it is. But all the rest of the film takes place in the bar, where the hostages - Faye Dunaway, Viggo Mortensen, Skeet Ulrich, M Emmet Walsh and John Spencer - try to stay alive, while the police outside, led by Joe Mantegna, figure out what to so. Alas, debutant director Kevin Spacey can't turn this into anything approaching entertainment. The cops do eventually go in, but you may be asleep by then. Suspense is notably lacking.

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