15 Minutes (2001)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 83
As critical as it is about sensationalism in the media, 15 Minutes itself indulges in lurid violence, and its satire is too heavy-handed to be effective.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 21
As critical as it is about sensationalism in the media, 15 Minutes itself indulges in lurid violence, and its satire is too heavy-handed to be effective.
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An action drama centering on the media circus, 15 Minutes focuses on a New York homicide detective named Eddie Flemming (Robert De Niro), a famous figure known for his heroic on-the-job manner. A tabloid news anchor (Kelsey Grammer) attempts to get the scoop on Flemming's latest beat when a pair of Eastern European criminals (Karel Roden and Oleg Taktarov) find a way to manipulate the media by filming their exploits, which they believe they can sell to bloodthirsty journalists and make
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Robert De Niro
Eddie Flemming -
Edward Burns
Jordy Warsaw -
Kelsey Grammer
Robert Hawkins -
Avery Brooks
Leon Jackson -
Melina Kanakaredes
Nicolette -
Karel Roden
Emil Slovak -
Oleg Taktarov
Oleg Razgul -
Vera Farmiga
Daphne Handlova -
John DiResta
Bobby Korfin -
James Handy
Captain Duffy -
Darius McCrary
Tommy Cullen -
Bruce Cutler
Himself -
Charlize Theron
Rose Hearn -
Kim Cattrall
Cassandra -
David Alan Grier
Mugger -
Gabriel Casseus
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Vladimir Mashkov
Milos -
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All Critics (143) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (84) | DVD (22)
It doesn't feel like a cookie-cutter cop thriller, and, on top of that, it's actually about something.
Top CriticHerzfeld's a secondhand-meister, simply regenerating themes, styles and a story line that we've all seen -- and tired of -- somewhere before.
The movie is nothing if not ambitious. The movie is nothing if not overdone. The movie is also, well, pretty much ... nothing.
Alley flasher, pubescent paperboy, toy with a broken squeaker. Edward Burns sounds like those things, but plays none of them here. He's fire marshal Jordy Warsaw. That sounds like a Pauly Shore character; Shore would arguably act with greater conviction.
Exceptionally violent, intense DeNiro thriller.
"15 Minutes" is a cops-and-killers action movie naively intent on telling you things you already know about the societal pitfalls of tabloid media.
It sounds like some crank on the next barstool venting about how everything is crap.
And so now, in the unambitious tradition of the eminent Natural Born Killers - comes the spectacularly underachieving 15 Minutes.
Andy Warhol's theory gets yet another Hollywood workup in this slezy actioner, this time around with two foreign criminals as media-hungry badasses.
It's as if Herzfeld believes all that stuff about Americans being hopelessly infantile -- he wanted to make a really good movie, but he just knew he'd lose us if he did.
Herzfeld has created an alternate New York City that is just unpleasant to look at, plain and simple.
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