despite solid acting (including John Cusack as a plainclothes detective), "Arsenal" is hobbled mainly by its director's histrionic tendencies
despite attracting some top-drawer talent, "Arsenal" is a brutally unpleasant, bottom-of-the-barrel crime drama that unsuccessfully attempts to drown the terrible dialogue and pedestrian direction with buckets of gushing blood
Arsenal seems like it might represent a tug of war between a gritty indie drama and a shamelessly pointless DTV programmer
