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Slow Burn
Lions Gate Films

Slow Burn reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 34 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.6 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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MPAA 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)


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Wayne Beach (also story)
Anthony Walton (story)
 
DIRECTED BY: Wayne Beach  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: July 24, 2007 
Theatrical: April 13, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

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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