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Movie Overview
Cast
Robert De Niro
Edward Burns
Oleg Taktarov
Director
John Herzfeld
MPAA Rating
R - strong violence, language, and some sexuality
15 Minutes (2001)
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3/5
"La cinta, lejos de ser más que el thriller que termina siendo, aspira a ser una visión crítica de la obsesión de los Estados Unidos por la violencia."
Cinenganos
Alex Ramirez
"Relentless yelling by two usually fine actors spoils this timely crime drama."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
3.5/4
"makes a strong, supported, and convincing stand on many current controversial issues"
NutzWorld
Blake French
D+
"Every situation is ironic, every event is a moral point, every symbol is forced, and everything is a symbol..."
AboutFilm.com
Carlo Cavagna
3/5
"Slow, plodding, and so far-fetched it stretches the boundaries of 'suspension of disbelief,'
15 Minutes
does very little with a good cast."
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
"The whole idea is just so 15 minutes ago."
Philadelphia City Paper
Cynthia Fuchs
1/4
"Herzfeld has created an alternate New York City that is just unpleasant to look at, plain and simple."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
C
"It's a film that has about 15 minutes of fervor to it before it gets grounded into a mixture of sleaze, violence, and heartless melodrama."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
3/4
"Has something to say, and it says it remarkably well."
TheMovieBoy.com
Dustin Putman
D+
"An ugly, depraved movie that is not so much an indictment of American celebrity culture as it is a worthless pile of trash."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
F
"A picture that's not only thoroughly disagreeable but slovenly made as well."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
3/4
"It doesn't feel like a cookie-cutter cop thriller, and, on top of that, it's actually about something."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
1.5/4
"a message vehicle that is both painfully obvious and utterly obtuse about its subject matter."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
3/4
"A couple of surprise twists and catchy POV-video imagery add to the uniquely unpredictable character of this explosive thriller"
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
"Too contrived and artificial for its own good."
Screen It!
Jim Judy
7/10
"A very original and timely movie which connects on various levels."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
"If Herzfeld is glorifying violence to make a point, the point is lost. "Fifteen Minutes" is no better than the tabloid shows it attacks."
Light Views
John Larsen
"Comes off more than a bit contrived and about as subtle as Jesse Ventura."
Planet Sick-Boy
Jon Popick
1/4
"And so now, in the unambitious tradition of the eminent Natural Born Killers - comes the spectacularly underachieving 15 Minutes."
Bangitout.com
Jordan Hiller
2.5/4
"No se deje sorprender, pues el resultado final es más bien engañoso."
Moviola
Jorge Avila Andrade
5/5
"Deserving of more than 15 minutes of fame."
3BlackChicks Review
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
"A fun ride, largely due to its heroic partners' bantering and its villainous partners' tomfoolery."
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
2/5
"This would be a more provocative
cri de coeur
if the ideas weren't just buzzing around like a swarm of enraged bees."
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Maitland McDonagh
"Doesn't work on any coherent level."
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh
3/4
"It forced me to think about many issues pertaining to our culture, which is much more than most movies bother to do."
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
"I watched an episode of
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
just before writing this, and it obviously warped my fragile little brain."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
1.5/4
"Herzfeld settles for the most mundane execution of his idea."
Mr. Brown's Movies
Michael Dequina
3/5
"Entertaining, and it managed to surprise me one and only one time, which is more than most buddy cop movies manage"
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
3.5/4
"
15 Minutes
is a very compelling movie about a situation which has no easy answers."
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
1/5
"It sounds like some crank on the next barstool venting about how everything is crap."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
C+
"So eager is this film to grapple with its demons, that it doesn't realize how much like them it has become."
Flipside Movie Emporium
Rob Vaux
2/4
"Gives weighty subjects a shallow, dumbed-down treatment in a simplistic story with a lot of dead ends."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
"Good drama that tells its story in a fresh, interesting way."
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
5/10
"Yeah it's tough to condemn violence and glorify it at the same time."
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
"A tiresome screed that purports to teach us a lesson about violence and the media even as it serves up much more than the minimum daily requirement of stabbings, bloody gunshot wounds and relentless stomach punches."
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
1/5
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Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
1/4
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Big Picture Big Sound
Joe Lozito
3/5
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Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
2/4
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William Wolf
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Rich Cline
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