Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

FlashCallahan 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 can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target Detective Eddie Flemming and Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw. They are investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show 'Top Story'.......Its a wonderful concept, murder someone who has a high profile, film and claim your insane, and not just become rich, become a media darling. It could have been a biting satire on reality TV, and how people take Andy Warhol's famous saying quite literal.But no, the makers go for a really strange mix of comedy and thriller, but the comedy just doesn't work due to the acts of the two criminals, even if they do remind one of Ren and Stimpy.Burns and De Niro are fine, but have zero chemistry together, and plausibility is thrown straight out of the window, so if you are looking for any sort of realism, which would have been very beneficial for this story, you are looking in the wrong place.If the humour was more evident, and the violence toned down, as well as the sinister streak it has, being over the top would have worked.It feels that there are two different versions of the script, and someone on set just bought a different version every other day. So the plot and story stay the same, but the narrative, and the feel of the film just end up very sporadic every now and again.For a throwaway movie, it has a point to the power of media, and how it influences many peoples opinions, but to go any deeper, would just expose the many plot holes this film has.

Adam Peters (59%) A real piece of all over the place Hollywood that shuffles itself around like a deck of cards every other scene. The main focus is not on DeNiro, or even Edward Burns, but on two eastern European maniacs who feature heavily throughout. What makes this so uneven is the tone. It starts as a crime thriller, then there's some breaking news exploitation satire with Kelsey Grammar, then DeNiro comes in turning it more into a cop action movie, then there's a series of quite sweet romantic scenes that come in between footage of the two bad guys filming themselves murdering someone making everything feel more than a little slapdash. Yet it sort of works mainly because everything happens so fast, and there's so much of it to get through. The fact that the cast is more than capable doesn't hurt much either, and it is quite well made too so you just sort of except the flaws as they arrive. It's just action cop movie thrillers, romance, a playful sense of humour, and snuff movies all mixed together doesn't create a great recipe for success.

dreadnaugt This movie starts out interestingly enough, but right from the start it suffers from Identity crisis. Who's the main character? Bad guys, good guys? Firemen? Police? It has split your attention 3 ways and it's not easy to enjoy from that mistake. Also, the film is supposed to be funny sometimes, and you think Deniro has a new sidekick. Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it a cop movie? Or a news movie? Then before you know it, the character they spent the whole movie teaching you about:with details about his love life, his crime scene investigation, his history with the media, is dead. Not a good way to go 3/4 of a way through. If Titanic had detailed the lives of 5 characters on board the ship, killed of Jack before the boat went down, made the ice berg a character, and gone in so many directions it would have been a flop too. The producers new they had a flop on their hands, and they tried to fix it by releasing it late. Woops....did not work.

dg-op Presented as a suspense-action-police thriller, "15 minutes" is supposed to be a critic to the American mass-media consumist society. The society watches and enjoys television; through it they see all that matters, and only what can be known by TV is worth knowing... even police officers are caught in this American "mania", having TV shows, fighting between each other in order to have a "15 minutes breakout". Also the western Europe killers... who come to America and first get a camera (obviously by stealing it, since they are immigrants)...The idea seems to be at least not bad, but the script is too obvious, half of the movie the word "Television" is pronounced. The motif that makes the two Europeans kill is not shown, but those stupid dialogs like "more illumination to the scene" or "cut and rolling" are said a hundred times, making the film obvious, predictable, and hence, boring.The movie, is in my opinion, racist. The whole story is about two European guys that will kill anyone for no reason, these killers are really lame because they let everyone to see their faces through the videos, their fingerprints and so much more. But the police officers have too much trouble capturing them (so they are even more stupid I guess?). How can someone be so unreachable in the mass-media era? That's the major failure of the story.And the movie itself is boring, Robert De Niro, an experienced actor, is just doll. The rest of the cast is not worth mentioning, but the Melina Kanakaredes' character.Too bad that an interesting story like the idea of snuff in our media (perhaps a reality nowadays) is wasted in such a terrible film. The idea, at the end, is stolen from Amenábar's "Thesis", one of the best horror films of the 90's.