t people would not be able to do. He is at home in the world of filmmakers as he is in the world of loan-sharks, and indeed he sees less and less difference between the two as time passes.
The comic energy of the film derives from the way director Barry Sonnenfeld creates a logic in jumping from one character to another, one "story" to another, and then he manages to link them all together in the final moments. Palmer is actually caught between two sets of gangsters--the organized East Coast variety, and the free-lance West Coast variety. Both sets of gangsters are volatile, aggressive, and violent, and both kill with little sense of guilt if anyone gets in their way or in the way of their business interests. Chili, on the other hand, always creates an aura of violence while rarely resorting to it, and he does so in a professional way that shows he is only doing what he has to do and has neither animus nor
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