This is not a good movie--I was somewhat surprised by it's not terrible rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but that is, I think, largely owing to the likability of Pierce Brosnan.
I watched it on a Trans-Pacific flight, and it was a quite harmless action-comedy that definitely passed the time, and didn't contain any content that would keep you up or make you think too deeply, so perfect for the setting.
Charlie Swift (Pierce Brosnan) is an assassin/problem solver for an old-time Biloxi, Mississippi, crime family. The head of the family, Stan (James Caan), has starting having memory problems, and Charlie has been looking after him. Charlie is sent to work with a rookie, Blade, to take out a troublemaker called "Rollo," but Blade makes a huge mess of the situation, and the body can't be identified. They go to Rollo's ex-wife, Marcie, for help, and Charlie and Marcie find themselves drawn to each other. Unfortunately, a new crime boss, Beggar, is looking for something Rollo had and takes out most of the members of Charlie's "family" in the process. So Charlie steels himself and sets out to find whatever it is that Beggar is looking for and then shut down his entire operation. But Beggar has an ace up his sleeve, a right-hand-man known as "The Freak". Almost everyone has a handle in this movie rather than a name, and almost every decision made leads to yet another challenge up until it all wraps up and ends.
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