The gunfighting plot revolves around a cop named Boomer (Wiper) who on his way home to his girlfriend is mistaken for an undercover CIA agent wanted by the mafia. Now Boomer is trying to get through the American midwest with his life intact. It's not easy. Wherever he runs there's a guy with a gun pointed at his direction. Every sucker has got a gun here, young and old alike, it's like a damn western movie, and at one point Boomer just about manage to escape by diving through an outdoor toilet (don't ask). The plot may be dreadful but the writing is a gem, full of cracking dialogue and colorful characters. Though the romantic subplot could have been left out, director Wiper is nontheless a man who knows what his targeted audience wants and he gives it to them with his tongue in his cheek and with a great sense of style. It's easy to spot Wiper's influences otherwise, it's the usual suspects - John Woo, Quentin Tarantino etc - but the film probably owes a greater dept to Clint Eastwood and classic movies such as The Gauntlet. Some people may be disappointed by a movie with Natasha Henstridge in which there's no nudity whatsoever but for the rest of us A Better Way To Die is a quirky and idiotic and completely braindead rollercoaster (hate that word), but definitely worth checking out.