This film's plot and premise make very little sense. It revolves around a former crook named Bishop who made off with $10 million after a Vegas heist while all of his accomplices got pinched, and due to a bullet wound to his head he's forgotten where he hid the money from the robbery. Bishop is now a sheriff in a small town in the Nevada desert called Baker.
For some unexplained reason Bishop (who was bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound to the head) was able to get away from the scene of the robbery in Sin City which was swarming with police (the same police who busted all of his accomplices) and made it all the way out to a small town in the middle of the Nevada Dessert which was many miles from Las Vegas and ran into his savior Alfred Molina, who plays a doctor in the film.
Where the near-death Bishop found the time to hide the money in a town he'd never been to before (or how he managed to get his badly bleeding body there in the first place) is left unexplained, as is the reasoning behind why Bishop took his chances hiding the money where someone could have possibly found it when it would have made more sense to keep it safe and close to him is unclear as well. (And when the location of the money is revealed at the end of the film one really starts to wonder how on earth such a badly injured Bishop could have even put it there in the first place).
For some reason the doctor in the small town he now resides in knows that Bishop has hidden the money nearby (although how the doctor knows this is never explained) as do numerous other people not living in the town, yet for some reason only the doctor and his ex have made any effort to look for the money.
At one point in the film the movie's antagonists tell numerous people in the town about Bishop's past and that the money is hidden somewhere in Baker. The crooks then say to the townsfolk that they'd better find the money for them or else the whole town will burn. This is downright illogical and stupid, as no crook (especially ones who were capable of stealing $10 million in the first place) would tell random people that there was that much money in loot hidden somewhere nearby and honestly expect them to fork it over if they found it.
Although these are but a few of the glaring plot holes present in the film, I can assure you that there are many, many more.
This movie also has some of the worst dialogue ever written which attempts to be clever but falls ridiculously short. Take this for example:
"Look at Stillman. It's like he's waiting on a train that already left the station."
"I'm thinking you're out where the trains don't run."
It's really that bad.
For some unexplained reason Bishop (who was bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound to the head) was able to get away from the scene of the robbery in Sin City which was swarming with police (the same police who busted all of his accomplices) and made it all the way out to a small town in the middle of the Nevada Dessert which was many miles from Las Vegas and ran into his savior Alfred Molina, who plays a doctor in the film.
Where the near-death Bishop found the time to hide the money in a town he'd never been to before (or how he managed to get his badly bleeding body there in the first place) is left unexplained, as is the reasoning behind why Bishop took his chances hiding the money where someone could have possibly found it when it would have made more sense to keep it safe and close to him is unclear as well. (And when the location of the money is revealed at the end of the film one really starts to wonder how on earth such a badly injured Bishop could have even put it there in the first place).
For some reason the doctor in the small town he now resides in knows that Bishop has hidden the money nearby (although how the doctor knows this is never explained) as do numerous other people not living in the town, yet for some reason only the doctor and his ex have made any effort to look for the money.
At one point in the film the movie's antagonists tell numerous people in the town about Bishop's past and that the money is hidden somewhere in Baker. The crooks then say to the townsfolk that they'd better find the money for them or else the whole town will burn. This is downright illogical and stupid, as no crook (especially ones who were capable of stealing $10 million in the first place) would tell random people that there was that much money in loot hidden somewhere nearby and honestly expect them to fork it over if they found it.
Although these are but a few of the glaring plot holes present in the film, I can assure you that there are many, many more.
This movie also has some of the worst dialogue ever written which attempts to be clever but falls ridiculously short. Take this for example:
"Look at Stillman. It's like he's waiting on a train that already left the station."
"I'm thinking you're out where the trains don't run."
It's really that bad.