Uncertain whether it wants to be a gangsta movie, torture porn horror or offbeat comedy, this schizophrenic slice of straight-to-DVD exploitation from Mario Van Peebles doesn't satisfy as any of them. Wesley Snipes is Lucky, a former con gone straight who loses his wife during Hurricane Katrina and ends up back in a life of crime. On the run with two briefcases of stolen cash and a bickering Cuban stripper (Jacquelyn Quinones), he's pursued by corrupt cops. Meanwhile, serial killer Cybill Shepherd abducts and tortures scantily clad women with the help of her toyboy accomplice (James Liao). Overplaying the bizarre card, writer/director Van Peebles tries valiantly to wring cult potential out of the strangeness of it all - even roping in Luis Guzmán to play an over-the-top gay porn producer. But, despite trying hard, there's no disguising the fact that everyone here is down on their luck.

Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.