Nearing retirement, maverick Los Angeles-based detective Frank "Bullet" Marasco is assigned to hunt down the notorious drug baron Carlito Kane, following a tipoff from Leroy, who is later whacked to death with a golf club due to interrupting Kane's golf game.

The plot thickens when Governor Johnson's daughter is kidnapped by Kane along with her boyfriend, in a bid to save his son Manuel from execution via lethal injection.

After a lengthy car chase, Bullet successfully evades Kane and his men but gets ambushed by them once again the next day.

Finally, Bullet calls it quits as a civil servant and resigns, secretly becoming a vigilante and goes to his cousin for weaponry to take Kane down.

[1] Jonathan Banks played the main antagonist of the film, drug cartel leader Carlito Kane.

[6] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian dubbed it as "terrible", "cheapo" and "lazy, rickety nonsense".