“Burn” (*1/2 out of four) was an insipid underworld melodrama about a morally conflicted hitman (Patrick Lazzara) who discovers that his younger brother (Eric Stayberg) killed the wife (Dawn Barber) of a volatile mob boss and he has two days to get him out of town before a contract killer kills the both of them. Sleazy story feels like reheated Elmore Leonard but without his wit and conviction. Lazzara also wrote and directed and his lead performance is decent but Barber is pretty awful as the femme fatale.

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