About 5 minutes into A Bittersweet Life, you know exactly how the plot will unravel. We have seen this all before: a criminal boss entrusts his right-hand man to take care of a personal business, which becomes the right-hand man's personal business ... which ends up in a fall-out with the criminal boss ... and it all ends in bloodshed. Miller's Crossing (1990) anyone? Or even Pulp Fiction (1994)?
