15 Minutes [VHS]
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Movie Review: a True Lemon!
Summary: 1 Stars
Avoid this film at all costs.Robert De Niro is One of The Greatest Actors Ever but aside from a few films over the past Decade&change His Films have been for the most Part Oen Note Johnnys.add this one to the Dog Pile.it tries to shock&provoke but all it does is become a film that lasts 45 Minutes too long.and when Robert De Niro dies in the Middle of a Film that usual means it's really doom.Kelsey Grammer in a Major Picture? He is solid for Tv but in Film He is Closer Tom Arnold Vile to me overall.this is a Film that was done within the first half hour.this film also suffers for trying to be too many things to all people.I Respect Robert De Niro, His Older Films are Must Have, but unless He changes His tune He is Better suited behind the Camera now or maybe time to chill.Movie Review: Nice idea, but...
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie lacked something -- believability. It's like it was trying to show how sleazy the media can be, which somehow made the film itself come across as being sleazy. The killers -- or the "actor" and the "director" (as they refer to themselves), come across as caricatures -- like Pinky and the Brain. They seem a little too [un believable], not hard edged enough. The big draw to this film is -- let's face it -- DeNiro, but he dies half way through the movie. Then, it's up to Ed Burns to carry the rest of the film. Ed Burns had done really well on some films ("The Brothers McMullen"), but filling a void left by DeNiro -- well, that's a tough one for anyone to fill. Burns' character is such a boyscout throughout the entire film, that any violence coming from him seems forced. Then there is the quasi-romance between him and Vera Farmiga's character, "Daphne Handlova," which was wasted. Here she is -- the sole eyewitness to original murders, who falls for Fire Marshall Bill (Ed Burns), and through out the whole movie, in the end, she's practically wanted more for being an illegal alien that for the information she holds. By the way -- how does a FIRE MARSHALL manage to keep himself so involved in a criminal case (especially after the only investigator that agreed to let him tag along is killed), in which the only fire that would even require his presence, takes place in the first five minutes of the film? I mean, this isn't "[other movie]," where there's a world of arson blowing up around us.Overall, this film felt like a bad reality show. Too bad. The idea had potential.
Movie Review: Don't Waste Your Money On This One!
Summary: 1 Stars
You know De Niro is good in any movie no matter if it's a bad one and my God did he ever try to save this film with as usual a stellar performance but he gets killed in this one and you know De Niro isn't supposed to die in any film especially this lame one. Then you're stuck with these two dopes running around with a camera recording their crimes, well there's just one guy and this guy must be a total [jerk], you don't have any sympathy for this sort of "innocent" killer even though it's his partner doing the killing and this other guy is not too bright either. Rent this movie first folks. I am not critical of De Niro, he's one the best actors alive and I did by the Ronin DVD. I just couldn't find anything to love about this film.Movie Review: Amusing.....
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a characteristic action movie. To begin with, it is some different from other ordinary action films. One of main character that is Robert DeNiro, is killed in the middle of the film. This film is quite interesting. The murderers kill people to make money, and broadcasting company use them. It shows morally bankrupt broadcasting companies that can??t think of anything but a scoop. So, they conclude agreement with the murderers to make a scoop. At first, this film was little bit boring, but it become to make tense and be interesting. At the last, it finishes stubbornly that murderer was punished as a conventional ending. Of the action films I have seen recently, I think, it is the most interesting and peculiar film. It looks like a common action movie, but it has a harsh criticism for broadcastings. Anyway, it is a well-made and funny movie.Movie Review: Been There, Done That
Summary: 2 Stars
15 MINUTES is a bit of an enigma. It teeters between being a police procedural, a social commentary, and an action film, and this ambiguity on the part of the writer/director leaves the viewer not quite understanding whether ANY statement was relevant come the conclusion.The story centers around Robert DeNiro and Ed Burns' characters, one a local celebrity of a police officer and the latter an arson inspector, as the macabre exploits of two immigrants who commit horrible crimes while videotaping them (for no REAL apparent reason except for the fact that one of the foreigners has been stricken with the Hollywood bug) for their own pleasure. However, once the two manage to kill DeNiro and capture his execution on film, the film spirals quickly out of control, making less and less sense. Kelsey Grammer (sp?) (largely wasted in a carbon copy role) stars as a city TV tabloid reporter who, while maintaining a friendship with DeNiro's cop character throughout, cannot resist the temptation to broadcast the bloody footage to the masses.
As any film afficianado would expect, Robert Deniro's performance crackles with Jedi Mastery of his craft. His irresistable ability to imbue every word of dialogue with the lifeblood of his character (popular city cop Eddie Fleming) elevates a rather predictable, formula story as best he can ... but, in the end, his sacrifice only begs the question who've all heard too many times before: "Is the 15 minutes of fame really worth it?"
The film smarts of an attempt to transform Ed Burns into an action hero, and, while it succeeds on several levels, he ends up being 'just another vigilante' in the film's final few scenes.
Lastly, the beautiful and talented Kim Cattrall is wasted in a performance as a studio executive (ironically) trying to turn the studio away from sex and violence in programming.
15 MINUTES starts out very well, building upon the tensions reminiscent of the best cop buddy pictures (DeNiro and Burns), but it quickly resorts to predictable set-ups and foreseeable twists. Along the way, the script provides plenty of potholes that even an accomplished thespian as DeNiro can't navigate around.