Three high school buddies decide to stage a gangland-style shooting in front of the local bank. Little do they know that their prank is about to send them on a dramatic collision course with Rusty (Rourke) and Leon (Baldwin), two cold-blooded criminals who are planning a robbery with the help of the bank's loan officer. In a case of mistaken identity, Leon is accidentally abducted by two of the teenagers, while the other falls in to the murderous hands of Rusty who forces him to carry out the bank heist.