Synopsis
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
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Cast
- Robert De NiroEddie Flemming
- Edward BurnsJordy Warsaw
- Kelsey GrammerRobert Hawkins
- Avery BrooksLeon Jackson
- Melina KanakaredesNicolette Karas
- Karel RodenEmil Slovak
- Oleg TaktarovOleg Razgul
- Vera FarmigaDaphne Handlova
- John DiRestaBobby Korfin
- James HandyCaptain Duffy
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Tribune
The surprise here isn't that 15 Minutes isn't a masterpiece; it's that the movie works at all. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
A cynical, savage satire about violence, the media and depravity. It doesn't have the polish of "Natural Born Killers" or the wit of "Wag the Dog," but it's a real movie, rough edges and all, and not another link from the sausage factory. - 60
Rolling Stone
Big, loud and lurid, but no less entertaining for that. - 50
New York Daily News
The Czech Republic and Russia, the respective homes of Emil and Oleg, should sue. - 38
Baltimore Sun
The unearned air of moralism that wafts through 15 Minutes pollutes its entertainment value. - 30
Village Voice
15 Minutes settles into Richard Donner-style goulash. - 25
Miami Herald
It takes a concerted effort to make a movie as relentlessly stupid and grating as 15 Minutes. - 25
Entertainment Weekly
Is less an end in itself than an excuse, a jumping off point for showy, contrived, borderline exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money shot thrills.
