15 Minutes (DVD)

Maybe 15 minutes will wind up being a guilty pleasure for you. Maybe you think a film title that references Andy Warhol's famous quote (". . . we'll all be famous for 15 minutes") has a chance of being fresh and innovative. Maybe you'd also like to buy an ownership share for the Brooklyn Bridge?CHEAP. 15 Minutes is a crass, over-ripe, somewhat disturbing film that you might quietly or secretly enjoy watching but never admit to liking in mixed company. It's the type of film a Michael Winner (Death Wish) or Larry Cohen might have delivered to audiences in the late 70's if they were given a big budget and were able to attract a star ...  Read the complete review

I have now seen what I consider to be the first great film of 2001, which is the action thriller/satire "Fifteen Minutes". Writer/Director John Herzfeld, whose last movie was the wonderfully witty "2 Days in the Valley" crafts a rare kind of movie experience in a genre where you'd least expect it. The film follows two foreigners named Emil (Karl Roden) and Razgul (Oleg Taktarov). They have come to America for different reasons. Emil is intending to catch up with a former prison mate who promised him a share of money, and Razgul, a lover of cinema, wants to make movies. Razgul is so much of film lover, that he soon steals a home movie camera from a ...  Read the complete review

A movie called 15 minutes that takes 2 hours. How can that be? It's been a while since my last contribution to DooYoo due to work and a slight lack of inspiration. So what better way to "get back into the saddle" than try a new type of review (for me) and comment on a movie. During a recent visit to the USA, I had an evening free and decided to see 15 minutes as De Niro is the lead and it seems impossible to not enjoy a film of his. On a recent flight, I even enjoyed "Meet the Parents" which is pretty much as light a piece as he'll ever make. Anyway, back to 15 minutes. As is probably well known by now, the title is ...  Read the complete review

15 Minutes is derived from Andy Warhols synopsis that in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. The story of the movie follows a Russian, Oleg Razgul (Oleg Taktarov) and a Czech, Emil Slovak (Karel Roben) who have just been released from prison following a bank robbery. Oleg is the big dumb Russian who is facinated by the USA and it movies and steals a camera to video their trip. Emil is the intelligent one but has a short fuse and this leads to him killing the third member of the gang who robbed the bank and escaped to America with the loot when he finds it has all been spent. The story starts when Oleg films the killing and the following kilings ...  Read the complete review

Fifteen minutes seemed like a lifetime to sit and watch this movie. If you are like me and get uncomfortable sitting down for long periods of time in the cinema then you will be wriggling within the first fifteen minutes of the screening. The title of the film is based on Andy Warhol's famous quote that in America everyone can be famous for fifteen minutes. The one decent thing about this film was that Robert De Niro gave his usual first class performance that marks him out as one of the finest actors on our screens at the moment. De Niro plays a celebrity cop who specialises in solving homicide cases. Ed Burns should really stick to directing ...  Read the complete review