This is the story of Bumpy Johnson, a gangster in New York pitted against Lucky Luciano and Dutch Shultz for the control of the numbers game. Bumpy, Lawerence Fishburne, gets out a jail and soon finds himself in charge of the gang when the Queen is arrested. Luciano, Andy Garcia, and Schultz, Tim Roth, try to take advantage of this and get a piece of the action. While Bumpy and Dutch and busy tyring to kill each other Bumpy falls for Francine, Vanessa Williams. There is a lot of time used for setting up the story but there isn't much information given. This makes for a lot of slow scenes that make the movie seem twice as long as it really is. There is some action thrown in but it is a short-lived fix. The cast is a good one and does well with what little they have to work with.
