15 Minutes
Some people will kill for their 15 minutes... Now, two of New York's finest must stop the madness.
Today, there are just three requirements for murder: the motive, the means...and the media. Robert DeNiro and Edward Burns pack serious heat in this supercharged action-thriller.
When two Eastern European criminals decide that the fastest route to fame and fortune in the U.S. is infamy, they embark on a vicious, headline-grabbing killing rampage. Hot on their trail are a veteran homicide detective (Robert DeNiro) and a young arson investigator (Edward Burns). Against a frenzied backdrop of tabloid TV and justice gone mad, they are drawn into the killers' explosive game of cat and mouse as the mean streets of New York erupt into a battlefield.
Co-starring Kelsey Grammer (TV's Frasier) and Melina Kanakaredes (TV's Providence), 15 Minutes is "a sheer adrenaline rush" (Movieline) that will leave you breathless!
Member Reviews
Wasting our 15 minutes - ABC99
There is alot to like about 15 minutes, Robert DeNiro's best work in years, an edgy storyline, vile villans but the premise is the issue. The characters are in service of a message, and don't act like criminals do, they act like movie criminals act. Movie criminals always have grander asperations then money or revenge. And thats the issue. I can't believe for a second the motive of the villans and the social message just isn't that interesting. A movie that says no one pays for their crimes in a country that puts more people in prison then any other country in the world. This movie really needs to examine its thesis.Not too bad - Poet
I was expecting more from this one. Being a huge De Niro fan, I was expecting a little more entertainment.
This movie has a good point to make about how criminals play the system and about how the bloodthirsty media plays a role by giving the criminals their 15 minutes of fame.
That being said, a little more subtlety could have gone a long way, In the end, this movie became somewhat of a caricature of the point it wanted to make.
I loved De Niro's performance, but I found Edward Burns to be kind of wooden in his delivery.
Not s total waste of time, but not a must-see either.Big ideas, but no structure - Baboonvideo
Writer-director John Herzfeld (2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY) wants to say a lot of things with 15 MINUTES, most of them stemming from observations about the media, exploitation, and how even the most callous criminals can manipulate and feed from the media to meet their demands. Unfortunately, however, these ideas are barely given any shape in 15 MINUTES, with Herzfeld's storyline jumping all over the place, often taking awkward shifts in characterization, structure and tone, particularly when he unforgivably uses the film's cold-blooded killers for comic relief.
Starring a lazy Robert De Niro and completely unconvincing Edward Burns, 15 MINUTES tells the story of a celebrated New York cop (De Niro) who hooks up with a young arson investigator (Burns) when bodies start piling up. Problem is, the murderers (Karel Roden and Oleg Taktorov) aren't just thirsty for blood, but rather for the fame and fortune they think they can get by filming their crimes, selling them to a tabloid TV host (Kelsey Grammer) and then making book and movie deals.
It is all supposed to be a damning indictment of the media, but the absurdities in the story cause great harm to the moralistic plea and everything falls apart by the ludicrous DIRTY HARRY-inspired final quarter.
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Wasting our 15 minutes - ABC99
There is alot to like about 15 minutes, Robert DeNiro's best work in years, an edgy storyline, vile villans but the premise is the issue. The characters are in service of a message, and don't act like criminals do, they act like movie criminals act. Movie ...Not too bad - Poet
I was expecting more from this one. Being a huge De Niro fan, I was expecting a little more entertainment.
This movie has a good point to make about how criminals play the system and about how the bloodthirsty media plays a role by giving the criminals ...Big ideas, but no structure - Baboonvideo
Writer-director John Herzfeld (2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY) wants to say a lot of things with 15 MINUTES, most of them stemming from observations about the media, exploitation, and how even the most callous criminals can manipulate and feed from the media to meet ...