The movie was great and this was good too
The game has you trying to track down the bad guys who are terrorizing the city. You travel around to hostile areas and find thugs and mobsters at every turn. Each character you meet will give you a clue or directions to a clue. You will eventually find what you are looking for.
My major dispute with this game is the life system. You have one life and only a couple hits take you out and force you to start from scratch. So you basically have to be perfect. When driving the cars around town, you can't really fire diagonally, but the bad guys can. All in all it makes the game fairly hard to play.
It is definitely good in terms of difficulty, but not necessarily in terms of avoiding frustration.