Former race car driver and American expatriate Peter Roberts has retired at the urging of his lawyer wife, though he resists getting an office job.

As Keller exits the bank, he opens fire on the guards, drops a bag into the car, and demands that Roberts serve as his getaway driver.

However, Agent Walker of the Australian Federal Police takes charge of the investigation over the objections of the corrupt Detective Chief Inspector Smith.

In response, Roberts briefly holds Keller at gunpoint with the elderly woman's pistol, but he surrenders it when he realizes that it is empty.

Resigned to his fate as the getaway driver, Roberts offers to drive Keller to his final destination, a marina.

Finding him ragged, wounded, and beaten, the police finally believe Roberts' story, and he returns to his family, who now respect him.

Brian Trenchard-Smith described the film as: An offbeat action comedy tailored to John Cusack and Thomas Jane’s screen personas.

[2]The film was originally set in the United States and written as a vehicle for Jean-Claude Van Damme, who dropped out.

Trenchard Smith says he subsequently rewrote the script: There was a window of availability for John Cusack, so if were able to quickly retool it for him and for Australia we could have him, so that’s what I did.

"[9] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a mild, boring movie with next to no action sequences and a lot of inane chitchat inside cars that are merely doing the speed limit, unlike the dialogue which never gets out of neutral".