A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.

為了爭奪老大的寶座，各方人馬不擇手段地設法扳倒對手，東京黑道社會間的爭奪戰引起不少槍擊事件，引起警視廳重視，開始著手調查。

纽约侦探约翰·夏福特英勇强悍，他受命办理哈林区角头老大女儿的绑架案，却也因此和所有黑帮为敌。各路人马的对决，一触即发！

罗根·布雷德（史蒂夫·詹姆斯 Steve James 饰）曾是一名警校优秀毕业生，他也梦想成为父亲那样的好警察。然而在纽约这个藏污纳垢的国际大都市中，许多罪恶肆意滋生，而警方又爱莫能助。为了涤清罪恶，5年前罗根选择成为一名赏金猎人，他一面赚取警方赏金，一面与犯罪分子进行残酷的斗争，终日游走黑白世界，为此和身为酒吧主唱歌手的女友迪妮丝（Valarie Pettiford 饰）关系分外紧张。

当巴黎扫黄部门对妓女谋杀案的调查脱轨时，一名警察会不择手段进行报复。

今年早些时候，有外媒报道《黑道圣徒》改编电影正在制作中，由《速度与激情 8》导演 F·加里·格雷执导，《真人快打》《生化危机》编剧 Greg Russo 担任编剧。近日，编剧 Greg Russo 表示，本片风格将与《王牌特工》相似，且会忠实呈现游戏的无厘头搞笑风格。他称：“我正在改编《黑道圣徒》，讲述荒诞古怪的故事，我们也要跟着一起疯狂，所以效果会很炸裂。我觉得这有点像《纽约大逃亡》，也像《王牌特工》，会非常有趣。”

今年早些时候，有外媒报道《黑道圣徒》改编电影正在制作中，由《速激8》导演F·加里·格雷执导、Greg Russo（《真人快打》、《生化危机》编剧）担任编剧。近日据编剧Greg Russo所说，本片的风格将会与《王牌特工》相似，并会忠实改编游戏的无厘头搞笑风格。“我也正在改编《黑道圣徒》，讲述荒诞古怪的故事，我们也要和它一起变得疯狂，所以效果将会很爆炸。我想这有点像《纽约大逃亡》，也像《王牌特工》，这将会很有趣。”

1974's The Nickel Ride is the work of director Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Stalking Moon) and writer Eric Roth (The Onion Field, The Insider). It's also the best film by far for Jason Miller of The Exorcist. The story of an obsolete mobster is less a neo-noir than a movie that behaves as if the noir period never ended. 　　Eric Roth's screenplay is about a guy who discovers that he's the last to know he's on the way out. Cooper, the "Key Man" (Jason Miller) is the mob contact for the warehouse district of downtown L.A.; his basic responsibility is finding secure storage space for truckloads of hot contraband. Cooper can't seem to close a deal that will secure an entire block of rail-adjacent warehouses, along with the attendant payoff arrangement to make the cops look the other way. Cooper is a local celebrity with his pals down at Paddie's bar, where Paddie (Victor French) makes sure he's always welcome. Cooper's ex-dancer girlfriend Sarah (the remarkable Linda Haynes) is also intensely loyal. But things don't look right. Local mob superior Carl O'Neal (John Hillerman) is acting aloof. He wants Cooper to break in a new man named Turner (Bo Hopkins), an insolent cowboy who hides behind an aw-shucks attitude. Just as it looks like the deal for the warehouses will go sour, a boxing match that Cooper was supposed to fix goes wrong. Suddenly stood up for meetings and unable to contact O'Neal, the Key Man begins to realize that Turner may have been brought in as a way of "easing Cooper out". 　　The Nickel Ride is a very good exercise in low-key crime intrigue, A local success story suddenly sees signs that the organization is turning on him. Cooper makes enough to afford a mountain cabin but lives in an apartment in his run-down neighborhood, much of which hasn't changed since the 1940s. Interestingly, the hints that he is being set up are not much different than what happens in any business, when some unlucky employee suddenly finds that his associates are pushing him out. Superiors don't seem to be interacting with Cooper in the same way, and the purpose of the unwelcome "new man" Turner can only be to rattle Cooper so he will make a mistake. The entire incident of the fixed fight that doesn't stay fixed, may well have been concocted to undercut Cooper's credibility. Driving to a meeting at a mountain getaway where nobody else shows up, Cooper can only conclude that he's being led down the garden path. And the menacing Turner always seems to be nearby, for no good reason. 　　Robert Mulligan orchestrates a pleasing set of supporting characters. Jason Miller and Linda Haynes enjoy a loving, understanding relationship. Linda even shows off some of her sexy dance moves for their pal Paddie, and no tension is created. But we see the paranoia creeping up inside Cooper. He keeps it under control with the exception of one bravura sequence that proves Mulligan to be a master of deception ... reminding us how well he generated a feeling of total dread in his previous film, an adaptation of Thomas Tryon's The Other. 　　The Nickel Ride has rewards that wouldn't be out of place in a Coen Brothers movie, even if it is 99 minutes of mostly unrelieved tension. The cinematography is by the great Jordan Cronenweth, who captures perfectly the ambience of various musty Los Angeles interiors. Casual viewers were probably bored by the film's dogged adherence to realism, but now it plays like a superior drama on all counts.