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15 Minutes (2001)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 10/21

15min
10/21: Robert De Niro sells himself out for 15 Minutes.

It's clear he's too far talented for such rubbish and should have tackled something else. Interestingly, as this does not happen often, the A-list star's character dies midway, and some unknown actor takes over. As a result, the movie goes further south. Some kind of personality will help here; instead, Edward Burns has the face of a doormat.

The concept as presented is nothing new. Oliver Stone did it before in Natural Born Killers with better results although a great deal of controversy emerged. I get it: the media makes bad people famous. But the plot is so unbelievable that it'll never happen. I can't understand why the cops casually let the two killers go; what were they thinking?

It's a surprise to see a couple of small-time actors: Darius McCrary and David Alan Grier. Until this, I hadn't seen the former in anything since Family Matters ended. As for the latter, well...it's a low point: being tied to a tree. What the heck happened to him since the heyday of In Living Color? Many people from the show broke out and became famous as a result, but David Alan Grier never did.

All in all, 15 Minutes feels like it was all thought up in the head by that same amount of time.