It was just a story about a dude on the run from his past and it catches up with him.
I would have liked to see bad ass Joey and what happened to make him give up his previous life. SOMETHING had to have made him give up the life and go straight.
It was kind of like Unforgiven, but not as well written, acted or put together.
In that flick we never saw William Munny's wife, but it was understood that she was the reason he gave up his previous life and tried so hard to not get back into it. If they had shown us why Tom changed his life, the movie would have been more profound. Maybe I need to read the graphic novel.
"...most sistahs only recognize a good man when he's a character in a shitty movie, a shitty play, their favorite daytime soap or a shitty book written by a homosexual."
From Reggie Eggert's online review of "Diary of a Mad Black Woman"