King’s Mob, a loose NYC collective of actors, filmmakers and musicians, spent three years constructing this ambitious, accomplished hard-core urban odyssey and the results, while ultimately uneven, demonstrate enough promise to inspire anticipation for their next project.

The intersecting plots focus on Jim, a self-described “spoiled suburban brat” now living on the streets of NYC and frequenting a local bar popular on the straight edge scene. The film unfolds over the course of three days and activities range from the mundane the practical to the intense and the fatal.

While it is apparent that the members of the mob really put a lot into this project because many of the actors are also credited as being on the crew, the project seems to be the brainchild of writer-producer Katie Nisa and writer-director Matt Pizzolo. Nisa also appears in a sizable role in the film.

Ultimately though, for all the ample energy and ambition that is apparent in the production, all the style and intelligence, the film takes the easy way out and concludes with a slam-bang explosion of excessive, over-the-top violence that is reminiscent more of “The Warriors.”

For all of the film’s attention to detail and hard-core realism the viewers should get more of an intellectual payoff rather than the cheap “we’re-so-tough, our-lives-are-so-intense” climax that feels almost tacked-on here.