i don't know whether to blame the director(s) or the studio. i really have a hard time believing that a veteran film-maker like walter hill would create such a huge piece of garbage. the audience gets hints into some potentially cool material but nothing is generated from it. i want to see the original directors uncut version to see what was so controversial that the studio decided to massacre this film. mgm should have a guilty conscience for cutting a director's film to shreds and then putting out an hour and a half movie that doesn't deserve to go straight to video. a perfect example of film-making as art versus the money/business/non-threatening side - the money side won out in this case - i can't imagine how walter hill feels. the studio people who ruined this movie at mgm are a bunch of wimps!!!