Originally entitled Searching For Salazar, this comedy riff on The Asphalt Jungle has a gang of disparate criminals brought together by the title character, who spends the entire film on the run from the police. Proving they don't in fact need him, the remaining four pool their talents and pull off a splendid bank job.
The four are:
Left to right: Ruben Blades, Fred Gwynne, Lou Diamond Phillips and (sleeping) William Russ.
Incompetent New Jersey cops Ed O'Neill and Daniel Rosebuck attempt to apprehend the criminal (Corbin Bernsen). The ending is good, but the very ending, in which the four decide to bail out Salazar for a million bucks, is just wrong. They should have left him to it.
Anyway, a bit broad and silly but quite fun, well put together by Frank Morriss and Dallas Pruett, assisted by Emma Hickox. Photographed by Ron Garcia, music by David Newman. It was produced by John Badham, who directed the Stakeout films, Bird on a Wire (1990) and The Hard Way (1991).
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