David Waters (Elijah Wood) and Jim Stone (Nicolas Cage) are two corrupt Las Vegas police officers who have trouble maintaining their standard of living on their meager income. When they learn that local drug dealers have set up their own bank in the slipstream of the casino industry, they decide to take some money from the underworld by illegal means. The cops hatch a plan to get their hands on the safe and its supposedly valuable contents. At first, everything goes like clockwork, but when they find out what is really in the coveted safe, it is too late for the unlikely duo to back down. They get caught up in a whirlwind of violence and corruption...
David Waters (Elijah Wood) and Jim Stone (Nicolas Cage) are two corrupt Las Vegas police officers who have trouble maintaining their standard of living on their meager income. When they learn that local drug dealers have set up their own bank in the slipstream of the casino industry, they decide to take some money from the underworld by illegal means. The cops hatch a plan to get their hands on the safe and its supposedly valuable contents. At first, everything goes like clockwork, but when they find out what is really in the coveted safe, it is too late for the unlikely duo to back down. They get caught up in a whirlwind of violence and corruption...