Ace in the hole

Like Herman Mankiewicz said, your only competition is idiots

One of my favorite movie death scenes occurs in Carl Franklin’s criminally underrated One False Move. It’s suffered by Pluto, an appropriately-named cold-blooded killer — near the beginning of the film we see him stabbing several bound and gagged prisoners to death, calmly and efficiently. As played by Michael Beach, Pluto is all reason, malice, and dri…