Lucy Liu Movie:

Editorial Review:
This John Irvin film is a small, hard-edged little gem, full of crisp action and tough-minded codes of honor. Harvey Keitel stars as a retired professional criminal whose younger brother (Timothy Hutton) lures him to Los Angeles for a can't-miss heist in Palm Springs. But Hutton hasn't picked his other partners very well, particularly wheelman Stephen Dorff: when it's time to divvy up the spoils, Dorff kills Hutton and a fourth partner and tries to rub out Keitel. Keitel escapes, however, and trails Dorff back to L.A., where he also figures out which Chinese mob he's tied in with. It's strictly revenge time from there on out, with Keitel as the one-man wrecking crew cutting a bloody swath through the L.A. underworld. Keitel is grittily good, a man of few words and many bullets, while Dorff is an enjoyably sleazy psychopath. A violently propulsive little noir. --Marshall Fine

City of Industry [Region 2] Reviews:
a great Harvey Keitel role,
2009-04-20 - In this movie Harvey Keitel plays a low key Clint Eastwood, the rest is suspenseful and worth a look

City of Industry is unique enough to be revisited
2009-04-13 - City of Industry (1997) is a hard-hitting crime drama that will
leave the audience dazed and reeling by 2 powerful (virtual)
left and right jabs to the stomach.

The reason the script and scenes work flows from its realism, in
the totality of the work, in that the action is entirely
believable, credible as is the case with the acting.

Four underground thugs, played by Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff,
Tim Hutton and Wade Dominguez, stakeout a bank in preparation of
relieving all its vault's and safety deposit boxes contents for
themselves.

After, it's a race against the clock in terms of
determining who stays alive, whose greed and skill
combination will get the upper hand in keeping the loot.

Combining a taste for the good life (hotel pool-side luxury) and
a desire to do the least effort to earn it (through hold ups and
double crosses) the gang prepare to split 3.5 million in
gems and valuables.

Unfortunately, in between the shotgun action, car pursuits, body
combats, explosions, car thefts, beatings, intimidation,
shakedowns, knife slashing, there is a limited or no law
enforcement, which oversimplifies a similar scenario.

Keitel's skill in getting information in the underground is also
impressive, as he is able to reach the right people to get the
right information needed, whether it be from a barman, attorney,
pole dancer, or close friends of his rivals in that milieu. Being
an expert at it, he can get blood from a rock, contacting if need
be, powerful triads who themselves have far-reaching contacts
tapping databases of info for addresses and locating people by
their cell phone beacon.

A paradox of this story, is the girl played by Famke who,
despite not partaking in the events, acknowledges her own
humanity by applying medical treatments to a gang member, and
caring about the particular situation, (as does the audience, in
the final analysis), as bodies are littered on the ground, in a
heart-breaking, nightmarish, one-dimensional manner from the
psychotic events having unfolded.

City of Industry is unique enough to be revisited for the
special effects, action, visual charisma of the actors and
quality of the filming, if not for Keitel's presence.

The DVD release is impeccably edited, with a sharp, clear
wide-screen release, and suitable soundtrack.

Pretty darn good crime thriller
2007-09-17 -
Harvey Keitel (Roy) plays his usual self-assured character leading a group in a jewelry heist, and then goes up against a myriad of contract killers.

Famke Janssen is very convincing as a mother of two and wife of one the jewelry heist gangmembers who gets caught up in the mess. Famke is very attractive with or without makeup, (and very tall-with those long legs). Timothy Hutton, Roy's brother (killed off early by Dorff) and Lucy Liu have minor parts.

All I can say is you'll be so very happy when Harvey Keitel smears Stephen Dorff's brains all over the pavement, towards the end of the movie. Stephen Dorff gives and absolutely first-class perfomance of a double-crossing, short-tempered, quick-drawing psychopath, who won't be double-crossed (as he has double-crossed) by anyone. Why does Harvey Keitel always seem like that "cleaner-upper" character in Pulp Fiction? You'll love the lawyer's office "laptop computer" scene. Classic.

Keitel
2007-02-01 - This was better than I thought it would be, particularly due to Keitel and Janssen's performances. A little more Timothy Hutton would have been terrific too, as their relationship, as brothers was a success.
After all, this genre (betrayal & underworld/a brothers revenge)isn't original. But the environmental use of Los Angeles' working class and industrial areas adds it to a list that includes To Live and Die in L.A., The Limey, Heat, and Training Day...A good list indeed.
But I return to Keitel who stabalizes this film, even with the histriotics of Stephen Dorff and the so-so script.

Excellent movie!
2006-12-22 - This is a very exciting movie that draws you into the storyline early on, and holds the viewers attention all the way through to the climactic moment! Highly recommended!