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38Works just fine as a generic but fast-paced - and rather ugly - cop buddy flick.
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38Clumsy urban thriller.
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38The unearned air of moralism that wafts through 15 Minutes pollutes its entertainment value.
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30Herzfeld also wrote the screenplay, and so its leaden and obvious tone and the resulting dearth of delicacy rests squarely on him.
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3015 Minutes settles into Richard Donner-style goulash.
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25It takes a concerted effort to make a movie as relentlessly stupid and grating as 15 Minutes.
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25It's the poster child for bad taste, not to mention bad construction.
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25Is less an end in itself than an excuse, a jumping off point for showy, contrived, borderline exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money shot thrills.
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20John Herzfeld, the writer-director, attacks America's lust for voyeuristic sensationalism by aping the very tactics he decries.
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2015 Minutes is simply a bad movie.
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20It's fleet- footed, merciless entertainment. But the mixture of laughs, bathos and brutality is a big turnoff.
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20They (De Niro, Burns) look good together. But what a staggering pity they chose such a nasty, hackneyed movie to demonstrate their chemistry.
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0Isn't just rotten -- badly acted, badly written, badly conceived -- it's dead inside.
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0It all adds up to one of the most brazen pieces of blame-shifting in exploitation-picture history.
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0If Detroit had produced an equivalent lemon, we might have been seeing the world's first one-wheeled, square-tired car with no cooling system, steering wheel or brakes.