If the destination proves less intriguing than its various journeys promise, it's still the kind of craftily assembled, generally watchable B-movie that might merit a gamble.

You can't help thinking how good the Coen brothers' Fargo was in comparison.

Big fleecy hats with earflaps are doffed to most of the actors. But, with this script, Deadfall was always destined to be a whiteout.

The bleak, raw landscape is a great setting for a hard-boiled crime tale full of desolate characters wandering on intersecting paths.