A reunion of the male leads of Swingers, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, with the latter again writing the script and for the first time directing as well. He has enlisted Wong Kar-wai's nimble cameraman, Christopher Doyle, to photograph it -- a smart move, it might seem, except that the scrappy results only go to show the importance of Wong Kar-wai's eye in their collaborations. The story, or better say situation, centers around a couple of lifelong pals, loosely connected to the mob, who for their separate reasons tighten those connections when they accept a vague assignment as cross-country couriers. As in the overrated Swingers, only more so, Favreau and Vaughn each have a well-honed shtick -- Big Putz and Bigger Putz -- and they repeat it ad infinitum and nauseam. Favreau once again comes through as the sympathetic one, not so much for his lunkish sadsack looks, still less for his mawkish relationship with the neglected daughter of his stripper girlfriend. It's just that he's not the one you yearn to see bound and gagged. Famke Janssen, Peter Falk, Sean Combs. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd