City Of Industry

Lee Egan , played with restraint by Timothy Hutton , wants to pull off a big jewel robbery in Palm Springs. He has been casing a jewelry store where once a year they have two to three million dollars  in stones from Russia.  To pull it off, he asks his brother and old pro-criminal Roy (Harvey Keitel)  to come to town to join his gang for the big heist.  Jorge Montana  and Skip Kovic (Stephen Dorff)  make up the rest of Lee's team. Calm and resolute Jorge needs the money for his wife Rachel (Famke Janssen)  and their kids since Jorge has just been sentenced to prison.  After the heist , at the trailer park, as Lee and Jorge are counting and dividing the money,  Skip guns both of them down.   Most of the show , which happens after  the jewel theft, consists of an elaborate cat-and-mouse game with Roy and Skip chasing each other. As Roy , Keitel carries the film with the kind of credible performance we've come to expect from him.  Keitel always brings an emotional and physical intensity to his roles that is unequaled.  Here  he is outstanding as Roy Egan-an experienced, complicated thief who never says much . Timothy Hutton  turns in a stellar  performance, as does the always watchable Famke Janssen as a woman recently widowed by the fall-out from Dorff's  betrayal of friends.  Thomas Burstyn's dark cinematography does a good job here to capture the city's underbelly.  This John Irvin film is a small, hard-edged little gem , full of crisp action and tough minded codes of  honor.