The Whole Ten Yards brings back the cast of characters from 2000's mob farce, The Whole Nine Yards: Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis), Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry), his new wife and Jimmy's old one, Cynthia (Natasha Henstridge), and Jill (Amanda Peet), the incompetent killer and dental assistant who was hired to kill Oz in the first film. That much is easy to figure out.

Everything else is up in the air for most of this sequel, a mess of rushed editing, lame plot twists and forced humour that features the limpest payoff this side of 28 Days Later.

Ex-hitman Jimmy is now living with Jill in Mexico, slowly mutating into a horrible fusion of Martha Stewart and Vince Neil. Oz has moved from Montreal to Los Angeles, mercifully closing the door on the bevy of Québécois jokes that fuelled Nine Yards. He lives there with Cynthia, paranoid that the nasties out to get him in the first film will return. And after a brief flashback scene that's supposed to act as a set-up, they do. Hungarian gangster Lazlo Gogolak (Kevin Pollak) is after revenge for Jimmy's killing of his son, and he's willing to go through Oz, Cynthia and Jill to get it.

Pollak's over-the-top performance as an accent-impaired Corleone clone is the film's only real source of humour. While Perry tries hard, his archaic slapstick act is more bemusing than funny.