He then visits Doyle's headquarters at a social club and challenges the hood to a duel, which Smith wins.

Learning of the Irish hood's death, Fredo Strozzi, the head of Jericho's Italian gang, later offers Smith a job in his outfit.

Giorgio Carmonte, the son of a prominent Chicago mobster, monitors Strozzi's activities in Jericho.

Doyle's right hand man Hickey travels to Mexico, kills Ramirez and a corrupt Border Patrol officer involved in the liquor trade, and kidnaps Carmonte.

Smith is apprehended by Sheriff Galt, who brings him to meet with Captain Tom Pickett of the Texas Rangers.

Pickett has been ordered to investigate the officer's death and says that the State of Texas will not tolerate Doyle and Strozzi's war any longer.

The next day, Smith is waiting at the safehouse when Doyle arrives, and claims that Strozzi managed to kidnap Felina again.

Smith's plan goes awry when Hickey ambushes him, having received word that Felina was spotted heading towards Mexico.

Two days later, Galt arrives and informs Smith that Monday was caught smuggling food and water to the church and that Doyle will probably torture him to death.

Smith returns to town, kills McCool and the rest of Doyle's men, and rescues Monday.

Smith lures Doyle to his location and lets Monday take revenge by killing the gangster.

Walter Hill was approached by producer Arthur Sarkassian to remake the Japanese film Yojimbo (1961), which Akira Kurosawa not only directed but also co-wrote with Ryūzō Kikushima.

I think this is obviously by its nature a very dark and very hard movie, so I think it would be dishonest to tell the story and present the physicality in a softer way.

[2] The film was green lit by New Line Cinema's head of production Michael De Luca who allocated a $40 million budget.

Before Hill edited the final theatrical version his rough cut was used to edit the trailers for the movie, which is why there is lot of alternate/deleted footage shown in them, including alternate takes, different edits of some scenes, extended versions of scenes, some extra lines of dialogue, shots and parts of deleted scenes including additional shootout sequence between two gangs and alternate ending in which Hickey is killed by Smith in a different way.

The website's consensus reads: "Last Man Standing's brooding atmosphere and bursts of artfully arranged action prove intriguing yet ultimately insufficient substitutes for a consistently compelling story.