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Slow Burn

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Wayne Beach (also story)
Anthony Walton (story)
Directed by: Wayne Beach
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 13, 2007
DVD: July 24, 2007
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sexuality, violence and language
Starring Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Jolene Blalock, Guy Torry, Taye Diggs, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Bruce McGill
A sexy, stylish thriller, Slow Burn stars Ray Liotta as a big-city district attorney with his eye on the mayor's office and a big problem on his hands. (Lions Gate)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Beach blends all the performing styles smoothly: LL's blithe coolness, Blalock's sultry ambiguity, Liotta's slow-boiling intensity, Ejiofor's dapper amiability, Phifer's brooding intensity.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
A strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of "The Usual Suspects" and the "Tragic Mulatto," Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
What results are surprises without sustenance.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
No one and nothing can be taken at face value in Beach's twisty tale of secrets and lies, which buries its very interesting idea in a welter of ludicrous dialogue and skin-flick imagery.
Read Full Review >Variety Eddie Cockrell
What begins as a moderately interesting set of interconnected mysteries involving race and identity soon grows eye-rollingly laborious, not to mention increasingly derivative of Christopher McQuarrie's "Usual Suspects" script.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
The sort of cheesy thriller that would prove mildly diverting on late-night cable, Slow Burn at least features a terrific cast to enliven its familiar elements.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Michelle Kung
A veritable rip-off of 1995's "The Usual Suspects," Beach's crime caper not-so-subtly apes Bryan Singer's use of multiple red herrings and flashback-heavy interrogation scenes, but lacks the stylistic flair and sophisticated narrative skills to pull off a similar feat of cinematic intrigue.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
An amusingly preposterous last act keeps you guessing, or maybe keeps you ducking, as it lets rip an avalanche of startling revelations and double-crosses. Nothing is what it seems - unless it seems cheesy.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
Beach's storytelling tactics, much like the film as a whole, would simply be annoying if they weren't also borderline insulting.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Shelved for over a year, this incompetent mystery thriller stops periodically so some character or other can deliver an expository speech and pull the plot back on track, but by the end the story has turned into a hair ball.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
For all it does right, there's something seriously wrong.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
A wooden police thriller that is as dull as it is impenetrable and ultimately beyond ludicrous.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Toddy Burton
The cast, particularly Liotta, walk around with befuddled expressions on their faces, perhaps wondering what on earth they’re doing in this movie and how they can find a new agent ASAP.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
