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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:2
Rotten:10
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: With wooden acting and hammy, overheated dialogue, Slow Burn isn't so much a noir as it is a mediocre parody of one.
Theatrical Release:Apr 13, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $1,181,197
Synopsis: In director/writer Wayne Beach's neo-noir thriller, SLOW BURN, various characters on both sides of the law collide in an unnamed city. District Attorney Ford Cole (Ray Liotta) is campaigning to... [More]
Shelved for over a year, this incompetent mystery thriller stops periodically so some character or other can deliver an expository speech and pull the plot back on track, but by the end the story has turned into a hair ball.
Top CriticA strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of The Usual Suspects and the Tragic Mulatto, Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro.
Top CriticIf you have not figured out the identity of Luden by the finale, it will only be because you do not care.
Top CriticThe bigger problem is that for all the plot turns and reversals and flashes of action that Beach has structured into his film, there's an elusive extra something that's missing.
Top CriticJohn Grisham meets The Usual Suspects by way of late-night Cinemax in this derivative thriller.
Top CriticNothing is what it seems -- unless it seems cheesy.
Top CriticA lesson in how not to make a multiple-viewpoint mystery.
Top CriticIt's not a brilliant movie. It's certainly not worth canceling any appointments to catch at the theater. But it's more than worth a quick look on cable, or even an impulsive rental.
Top CriticSlow Burn is a wooden police thriller that is as dull as it is impenetrable and ultimately beyond ludicrous.
Top CriticHas direct-to-video etched all over it.
Top CriticBeach's storytelling tactics, much like the film as a whole, would simply be annoying if they weren't also borderline insulting.
Top Critic[Director] Beach slams open the trap doors of false and real identity with such a frenzy that, even at the end, you're not sure who's who and what they did to whom. It's sloppy fun to watch while you're in the theater.
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