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Fifteen Minutes partners Robert De Niro and Saving Private Ryan's Edward Burns in a thriller satire on America's "reality TV" industry. De Niro plays celebrity detective Eddie Fleming, who must reluctantly work with arson investigator Jordy Warsaw (Burns) when a grisly fire is discovered to conceal a murder. This is the work of Emil (Karel Roden) and Oleg (Oleg Taktarov), East European psychos bent on a maniacal spree of killings. All of these are videotaped by Emil, who renames himself after his hero Frank Capra, in a perverse tribute to the US of A, where "no one is responsible for what they do!". Soon the duo decide to sell their footage to Kelsey Grammer's creepily shameless frontline TV journalist. As a pair of loons whose scariness is just the right side of cardboard villainy, Roden and Taktarov steal the movie as well as their camcorder. However, the central theme of voyeurism and video murder was dealt with far more effectively in the 1992 Belgian movie Man Bites Dog and, while the action tears along in explosive fashion, it does so at the expense of both plausibility and the anti-media satire, which seems hitched crudely onto the bumper of what is essentially a satisfying but conventional blockbuster thriller. --David Stubbs
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, not great...,
This review is from: 15 Minutes [DVD] (DVD)
Interesting film, but rather disappointing and sometimes lacked meaning and excitement although the storyline is generally good and nothing like I expected - prepare to be surprised! In all, a good film but by no means Robert De Niro's best.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Really not that bad,
This review is from: 15 Minutes [DVD] [2001] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This film premiered on TV a few weeks ago and I have to say I really liked it. I'm a big De Niro fan, but this film isn't just about De Niro, his appearance doesn't make it what it is, it's a good film on it's own. The story the film tells and the way it's told to me was original and powerful, slightly amusing but leaves you with a thought provoking message about how modern society works. It's not a multi oscar winning film or a Goodfellas or Deer Hunter, it's not suppose to be like them though and is a good entertaining film that'll certainly hold your attention.
3.0 out of 5 stars
15 Minutes Of Shame,
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This review is from: 15 Minutes [DVD] (DVD)
Robert De Nero stars as Detective Eddie Flemming; a cop with plenty of accolades to his name - he's also madly in love with Nicolette Karas (Melina Kanakaredes) a TV presenter who works with Robert Hawkins (Kelsey Gremmer) who has a very popular current affairs show on TV.
They all become enthralled in a serious arson attack - and they need to find the culprits before more disastrous things happen, but the guys have a different idea on how to get their loot back, and it's not as conventional as some might think. I felt rather lukewarm towards 15 Minutes, at times it just dragged and the script got rather teadius; with the story dragging it's heels. Both De Nero and Edward Burns did a great job in this movie, but I just felt Kelsey was just too much like Frasier, which is usually the problem with worldwide fame and recognition. I didn't really like the storyline, I felt it was too stereotypical, and the East vs West theme was rather strange. It was interesting how the story developed, but by the time it had I wasn't that interested, as it was taking a while to get to the point. This isn't a bad film, well worth renting, just doesn't have that come back to feeling. I have had this DVD sitting on my shelf for 7 years now, and this is the first time I have come back to it in all that time.
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