Such a frustrating disappointment

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

15 minutes was one of those movies I really enjoyed in a long time. It has a really good and compact script. Like Natural Born Killers which displayed how media becomes a greedy and sickening calling, 15 minutes kind of goes the same way, in how it glamorizes killers, where how they came from poor backgrounds, boo hoo, except these two Russian killers are just scum. How the movie plays out later on, I really liked, with some things you never saw coming, especially Deniro's turn of bad fate. Two Russian immigrants have come to America, with a plan, to document real murders, committed by them, where when they're caught, they will plead insanity. A high profile celebrity detective (De Niro acing a role as usual) and Burns as a fireman, team up together, after a fire consumes a whole building, that's work of the killers who were collecting n a debt, Burns too, making a bitter enemy with a mugger he handcuffed to a tree naked, prefore. The way the story goes is what makes this two hour flick, (a little longish) an electrifying thriller, where at the film ensues with a perfect shoot em' dead ending, we come to see the media for what they really are, especially ex friend of De Niro's here and media media magnate, played by Kelsey Grammar. It was good in how in the second half how Burns becomes the hero, where we solely relied on him to take this manipulative and psychotic two down, especially the really sick and much weaker one. Oh, I love this revenge moments. To, when De Niro, showing his rebelliousness and mettle, when made a hostage, spitting blood back in one of the faces, where his demise saddened and shocked. Truly riveting viewing here folks, don't miss these minutes of viewing.

This movie starts out interestingly enough, but right from the start it suffers from Identity crisis. Who's the main character? Bad guys, good guys? Firemen? Police? It has split your attention 3 ways and it's not easy to enjoy from that mistake. Also, the film is supposed to be funny sometimes, and you think Deniro has a new sidekick. Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it a cop movie? Or a news movie? Then before you know it, the character they spent the whole movie teaching you about:with details about his love life, his crime scene investigation, his history with the media, is dead. Not a good way to go 3/4 of a way through. If Titanic had detailed the lives of 5 characters on board the ship, killed of Jack before the boat went down, made the ice berg a character, and gone in so many directions it would have been a flop too. The producers new they had a flop on their hands, and they tried to fix it by releasing it late. Woops....did not work.

Presented as a suspense-action-police thriller, "15 minutes" is supposed to be a critic to the American mass-media consumist society. The society watches and enjoys television; through it they see all that matters, and only what can be known by TV is worth knowing... even police officers are caught in this American "mania", having TV shows, fighting between each other in order to have a "15 minutes breakout". Also the western Europe killers... who come to America and first get a camera (obviously by stealing it, since they are immigrants)...The idea seems to be at least not bad, but the script is too obvious, half of the movie the word "Television" is pronounced. The motif that makes the two Europeans kill is not shown, but those stupid dialogs like "more illumination to the scene" or "cut and rolling" are said a hundred times, making the film obvious, predictable, and hence, boring.The movie, is in my opinion, racist. The whole story is about two European guys that will kill anyone for no reason, these killers are really lame because they let everyone to see their faces through the videos, their fingerprints and so much more. But the police officers have too much trouble capturing them (so they are even more stupid I guess?). How can someone be so unreachable in the mass-media era? That's the major failure of the story.And the movie itself is boring, Robert De Niro, an experienced actor, is just doll. The rest of the cast is not worth mentioning, but the Melina Kanakaredes' character.Too bad that an interesting story like the idea of snuff in our media (perhaps a reality nowadays) is wasted in such a terrible film. The idea, at the end, is stolen from Amenábar's "Thesis", one of the best horror films of the 90's.

Robert DeNiro getting killed with some time before the movie ends? This in itself is quite unusual.Nonetheless, we have an interesting take on a film that deals with pleading the insanity line in murder and attempting to get away with it. It seems as the film is ending that the victims here are the good guys and that evil knows how to go around the law.Two men, a Russian and Czech nationalist enter the U.S. to further ridicule our system of justice. They go on a killing spree and expect to get away with their hideous deeds due to the insanity plea.What they don't consider is justice being meted out by a fire marshal who is fed up with the system as it exists after he is about to be ruined by it as well.