If video stores were like supermarkets, one would find GENUINE RISK in the generic products section with a plain label reading "Film Noir." It's a no-frills thriller with all the basic ingredients but no flavor.
Henry (Peter Berg) is a young parolee listlessly throwing his life and his money away betting on racehorses. His old buddy Jack (M.K. Harris) has become the right-hand man to murderous gangster Paul Hellwart (Terence Stamp), and when a job opens up in the syndicate (Hellwart has blown out a
flunkie's brains) Jack talks Hellwart into hiring the unwilling Henry. This creates problems for our anti-hero, for he's been having grunting sex with a mysterious b...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
89 mins