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Slow Burn

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Slow Burn reviews
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3.6 User Score:

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)

What The Critics Said

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88

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.

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58

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.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

What results are surprises without sustenance.

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50

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.

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40

LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson

Yep, it’s Keyser Soze time.

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40

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.

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40

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.

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38

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.

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38

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.

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30

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.

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30

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.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

For all it does right, there's something seriously wrong.

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20

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A wooden police thriller that is as dull as it is impenetrable and ultimately beyond ludicrous.

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11

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.

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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.

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