A Los Angeles detective encounters high strangeness in his search for a missing woman & a 30-million-dollar cache of diamonds in this off-beat mystery thriller from Otis director Tony Krantz Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) is the kind of detective people come to when all of their other resources have run dry Approached by paroled Russian boxer Anton (Robert Maillet) to track down his elusive girlfriend Lexie (Sienna Guillory) & recover the stash of diamonds she has stolen Detective Cruz calls on all of his connections to get the job done Eventually his investigation leads him from a kinky Hollywood action icon (James Van Der Beek) to a multi-talented pornographer (Snoop Dogg) & a physics-obsessed waitress (Autumn Reeser) with an insatiable sexual appetite Ned&s hard work starts to pay off however when he ventures deep into the New Mexico desert where an eccentric billionaire (Sam Elliott) & a brilliant physicist (Jimmi Simpson) have hatched a plan to recreate the Big Bang Now with the cops hot on his tail & a potentially catastrophic experiment unfolding right beneath his feet Ned races to find the girl & recover the diamonds before the world comes to an end