The Man With the Plan, Mister Shhh, Jimmy the Saint, Pieces -- did they think they were casting "Reservoir Dogs 2"? In the wrong hands -- like those of novice director Gary Fleder and novice writer Scott Rosenberg -- such cutesy mob monikers are no better than derivative. Usually, they're a lot worse, existing primarily to draw attention from major script problems, their hip quotient a seeming cure-all. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead is bursting with recycled setups and coattail-riding, one of countless sputtering crime dramas released in the immediate years after Quentin Tarantino revived the genre and gave it his own (irrevocable) talk-driven spin. Andy Garcia quietly glowers like a man already dead, which is kind of the point, but it's a one-note performance nonetheless, and it's not the only one in the film. The one actor who generates presence is Treat Williams, practically burning through the celluloid as a ticking time bomb who does and says the most unpredictable things. Williams gives the film its only doses of comedy and menace; it needed more of both, and less of the tacked-on romance between Garcia and Gabrielle Anwar. Don't let the title fool you -- there's not much going on here.