This was obviously concocted as a low budget limited location thriller. Set mostly in a strip club, and considering those limitations the story is fairly decent, but why it took three credited writers to come up with this is beyond me? The cast is pretty good, but generally wasted here. The direction is straight-to-video hack job. Checking the director's credits reveals that he's really a stuntman. Luckily for movie fans, he has since returned to his true calling. You'd think by now that Hollywood would "get" that stuntmen and cinematographers are almost invariably not the stuff of movie directors, no matter how talented they are in their own fields. Character development is an essential component of movie-making, and that is the forte of writers and (good) directors. Action and pretty scenery do not equal drama. For Shannon Whirry completists only.
