[1][2] Starring Pete Postlethwaite, Neil Morrissey, Adrian Dunbar, and Donnie Wahlberg,[3][4][5][6] the film had festival and video screenings in 2002 and 2003 before its DVD premiere in 2004 and television releases in 2007 and 2008.

While attempting to scam someone he thinks is a businessman, Pete intercepts a briefcase full of cash intended for mobsters Terry Malloy (Donnie Wahlberg) and Tommy O'Brian (Michael Rapaport) as a payoff for a planned hit, as well as a key to a swank hotel room.

[3] They offered that while the cast choices were fine, they were "generally wasted" and that the film, "lacking equally in humor and action, looks headed directly to home vid and cable.

They considered its soundtrack inappropriate and the director's use of slow motion or high-speed for certain scenes as an unsuccessful lending of style, making it look "ridiculous and cheap, like a poor man’s Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.

"[8] They wrote "A comedy-thriller short on laughs and thrills, Triggermen is a rather misjudged film" that used a "Ridiculous plot, second-rate acting and the stylisation of The Benny Hill Show.