15 Minutes
Emil Slovak and Oleg Razgul are two ex-con who have just been released from prison. However, instead of making a fresh start, the two lapse into their old way by robbing a bank in Russia. And soon do they forget what make them in prison.
12 February 1966, Port Antonio, Jamaica
11 March 1989, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
29 August 1950, Springfield, New Jersey, USA
1 July 1967, London, England, UK
13 June 1976, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
29 January 1968, Woodside, Queens County, New York, USA
29 September 1956, New York City, New York, USA
16 February 1938, New York City, New York, USA
28 April 1972, New York City, New York, USA
9 March 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 May 1962, Ceské Budejovice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
27 November 1963, Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
May 20, 2009
"15 Minutes" is a cops-and-killers action movie naively intent on telling you things you already know about the societal pitfalls of tabloid media.
March 09, 2001
Herzfeld's a secondhand-meister, simply regenerating themes, styles and a story line that we've all seen -- and tired of -- somewhere before.
March 09, 2001
A shrewd thriller.
July 23, 2007
It sounds like some crank on the next barstool venting about how everything is crap.
September 25, 2010
Alley flasher, pubescent paperboy, toy with a broken squeaker. Edward Burns sounds like those things, but plays none of them here. He's fire marshal Jordy Warsaw. That sounds like a Pauly Shore character; Shore would arguably act with greater conviction.
March 12, 2001
It doesn't feel like a cookie-cutter cop thriller, and, on top of that, it's actually about something.
March 09, 2001
The movie is nothing if not ambitious. The movie is nothing if not overdone. The movie is also, well, pretty much ... nothing.
August 26, 2010
Exceptionally violent, intense DeNiro thriller.
January 31, 2006
Andy Warhol's theory gets yet another Hollywood workup in this slezy actioner, this time around with two foreign criminals as media-hungry badasses.
March 09, 2001
Two horrifyingly bad hours that should stand as a reminder to keep Hollywood away from big issues or anything else it can put in its mouth and choke on.
September 27, 2006
And so now, in the unambitious tradition of the eminent Natural Born Killers - comes the spectacularly underachieving 15 Minutes.
March 09, 2001
A clumsy urban thriller.
