In it, an amnesiac contract killer seeking to escape the clutches of a shadowy government agency allies with a whistleblower, who may have uncovered a conspiracy regarding the human engineering of the AIDS epidemic.

Professional hitman Harlin Garrett is left for dead, the victim of a hit orchestrated by his mafia employers after they decide he has outlived his usefulness to them.

[3][2] In the U.S., the film premiered on home video in the third week of January 1995 under the alternate title The Killing Man, via A-Pix Entertainment.

"[11] The British Film Institute's magazine Sight and Sound took the opposite stance and argued that "this low-key release confounds the view that martial arts/action genre is the last bastion of male prejudice".

[12] The soundtrack features the songs "Adura" by Hunter/Greer and "Merry-Go-Round" by Big Faith, two projects from former Red Rider guitarist Ken Greer, who went on to score a pair of later Lee/Wincott efforts, No Exit and When the Bullet Hits the Bone.

[13] Wincott appeared in a series of four more vehicles for Lee and Amritraj: The Donor, Law of the Jungle, No Exit and When the Bullet Hits the Bone.