Synopsis
A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger.
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Cast
- Ray LiottaFord Cole
- LL Cool JLuther Pinks
- Mekhi PhiferIsaac Duperde
- Jolene BlalockNora Timmer
- Chiwetel EjioforTy Trippin
- Taye DiggsJeffrey Sykes
- Bruce McGillGodfrey
- Fisher StevensAlan Turlock
- Guy TorryChet Price
- Frank SchorpionMaybank
Recommandations
- 88
Charlotte Observer
Beach blends all the performing styles smoothly: LL's blithe coolness, Blalock's sultry ambiguity, Liotta's slow-boiling intensity, Ejiofor's dapper amiability, Phifer's brooding intensity. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
No one and nothing can be taken at face value in Beach's twisty tale of secrets and lies, which buries its very interesting idea in a welter of ludicrous dialogue and skin-flick imagery. - 40
Variety
What begins as a moderately interesting set of interconnected mysteries involving race and identity soon grows eye-rollingly laborious, not to mention increasingly derivative of Christopher McQuarrie's "Usual Suspects" script. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Yep, it’s Keyser Soze time. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The sort of cheesy thriller that would prove mildly diverting on late-night cable, Slow Burn at least features a terrific cast to enliven its familiar elements. - 38
New York Post
An amusingly preposterous last act keeps you guessing, or maybe keeps you ducking, as it lets rip an avalanche of startling revelations and double-crosses. Nothing is what it seems - unless it seems cheesy. - 38
Boston Globe
A veritable rip-off of 1995's "The Usual Suspects," Beach's crime caper not-so-subtly apes Bryan Singer's use of multiple red herrings and flashback-heavy interrogation scenes, but lacks the stylistic flair and sophisticated narrative skills to pull off a similar feat of cinematic intrigue. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Beach's storytelling tactics, much like the film as a whole, would simply be annoying if they weren't also borderline insulting.
