The plot of "Killing Zoe" has an American safecracker (laconic Eric Stoltz) summoned to Paris by an old friend (French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade) to help rob a bank on Bastille Day.

Stoltz arrives, suffering from jet lag, and spends the night with a prostitute (Julie Delpy, seen most recently in "White" and "The Three Musketeers") - though she protests at that characterization.

Enter Anglade, who throws Delpy out and takes Stoltz on the town for a night of boozing and drug abuse. The next day, he is awakened early and dragged to the bank, where Anglade, who claims to have AIDS, begins gunning down everyone in sight.

What follows, instead of some clever caper flick, is a gory bloodbath with no redeeming elements whatsoever.

"Killing Zoe," rated R for considerable violence, sex, nudity, profanity, vulgarity and drug abuse.