I rented the movie and it turned out to be a rip off of Carlito's Way starring Al Pacino. It's pretty weird considering that John Luiguizamo is also a character in Carlito's Way. But anyway in Carlito's Way, Al Pacino is a famous gangster, and he wants to get out of the life and starts saving money and his girlfriend gets pregnant, so he gets a legitimate type of business and saves money so he and his girlfriend can go away and leave the life. But his friend screws up and winds up killing a pretty important guy putting Carlito (Al Pacino) back into the life and at the end, Carlito dies. This all pretty much happens in Empire also. I wouldn't recommend buying this movie.