15 Minutes (2001)

Hello I am Oleg from Mother Russia. No confuse please for dirty crazy man Oleg Razgul in 15 Minutes American movie. I am no crazy. I am fan for movie. No no I am not supreme Russian performer Oleg Taktarov as well but its okay to confuse me with him. Hahahahahahaha I make joke. Oleg Taktarov great man very sexy like hairy Siberian bear. Not like baby face Edward Burns look like young shaved boy. Edward must make women in America throw up meal in aisles of film theater. I sorry for Edward and he ugly face so no woman make love for him. Oleg make love to many woman many time. I love Vera Farmiga. Vera make Oleg very happy. Im not good at make English word for describe Vera so I hold while use Russian translator to make English. God Vera Farmiga looks just like absolutely gorgeous in 15 minutes honestly what the heck she's a really good actress man I love her this must have been the first movie I seen her too but I would definitely fall for Vera just like Burns' character did. Russian translator reign supreme over crappy American translator. Beautiful Robert De Niro best man at make believe. Thank you for my comrades liking review. This is Oleg to say go see 15 Minutes American movie. It is a very very very nice but crazy killer Emil very sad. Karel Roden is very good and almost steals show. In theaters now!

15 MINUTES is an acceptable modern-day crime thriller that takes time out to satirise the media and take a look at people's penchant for their '15 minutes of fame' which if everything is even more prevalent than it was fifteen years ago when this film was made. Although it features a headlining role for Robert De Niro, given his limited screen time he often feels like a supporting player in his own movie, with the hard-working Edward Burns as the main lead.The scene-stealing roles are given to Karel Roden and Oleg Taktarov, who excel as a pair of East European immigrants who arrive in New York and begin a crime spree. The story as it unfolds is resolutely gruesome and fitfully exciting, with some great set-pieces to enjoy, particularly a fiery one towards the climax. The casting director has done well to bring of interesting performers in, including the likes of Avery Brooks and Vera Farmiga, while Kelsey Grammar seems born to play the weaselly tabloid reporter.

15 Minutes (2001): Dir: John Herzfeld / Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammar, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden: Thriller where two psychotic killers commit murders via camcorder as if it was their 15 minutes of fame. They believe that the media will support them in their plea of insanity. Robert De Niro plays a celebrity cop who arrives upon crime sites with cameras trailing him. Edward Burns plays a rookie cop who believes that a woman on the scene is connected. Kelsey Grammar plays a talk show host hoping to make a name for himself filming De Niro's investigations. Great concept is well directed by John Herzfeld who plays this like a reality TV segment. De Niro does well as the celebrity cop investigating the crime. He is set to propose to his girlfriend before tragedy strikes. He is involved in a nonsense scene where he fights two guys while taped to a chair. Burns steals the film as the rookie cop pushed to the limits when someone close to him is murdered for entertainment. When made a concluding offer he answers with swift aggression. Grammar as the media host is a corrupt sort who learns rather bluntly that Burns cannot be bought. Vera Farmiga plays a witness whom the killers track down through escort services. Karel Roden and Oleg Taktarov are well cast as the criminals and they steal the film with their media frenzy and 15 minutes. Score: 9 / 10

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.