When I went to see City of Industry, I didn't know what to expect.  I knew the movie had Harvey Keitel in it, and that it was an urban-crime film-noir, but I decided to go see it anyway.  The movie starts off good, and ends even better with John Irvin's stylish direction and an awesome script written by Ken Solarz.  The acting is perfect, especially Stephen Dorff as a trigger happy psycho and Keitel, as an old gangster.

The film starts off when Lee Egan (Timothy Hutton) asks his brother Roy (Keitel) to schedule one last heist with him and a back up crew.  Skip (Dorff) is called in as the getaway man and gets talked into stealing the profits the crew would receive from robbing a jewelry store.  The heist goes good, but Skip kills Roy's brother, Lee, and the other crew member, escaping with the cash.  Roy  escapes and uses his underworld intelligence to track down Skip and seek revenge against him.

The movie leads to a gritty conclusion and tops my chart as one of the best gangster movies of the year.  The plot is well constructed and the characters, especially Keitel's turn out to be very interesting.  The movie played in limited release and was in theaters for only a few weeks in early March of 1997.  I recommend this movie for fans of Heat (with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino) and of urban-crime dramas or film-noir.