America likes to watch.
Superstar New York homicide detective Eddie Flemming (Robert De Niro) allows young, talented New York Fire Department arson investigator, Jordy Warsaw (Edward Burns), to team up with him to track down a pair of Eastern European killers on a rampage through the city. Ferocious, unpredictable and clever, the immigrants quickly learn how to use the celebrity of their pursuers to spin their own stardom into an explosion of media and judicial madness.
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Firstly, before I get on to what I saw, I would like to say that Avery Brooks (Ben Sisko from Deep Space Nine) played a very convincing partner and has proven that one can have a career beyond Star trek. While actors like Patrick Stewart played co-starring roles in films before The next generation - such as Dune and that film about King Arthur's court - others such as Brent Spiner have yet to play a leading role. He was great in ID4 and hilarious in Phenomenon, but I haven't seen him play a major part; and what about everyone else? Nothing!
What I saw was Robert De Niro in his last stand. There comes a time in every actor's feature film career when he or she must face reality and know that they cannot live forever. In those films where they come back to life it doesn't count. They die and that is that. Some die early in their careers and others die at the very end, as though they were in the real world. Bobby did his time and bit the bullet.
I did find that, in relation to the actors, it wasn't hard to guess who had the major roles and who didn't, but it was hard to catch their names. So, it's my deepest regret to inform you all, that I cannot say who did what, but I will tell you that this movie is nothing special. It rates well on the charts because it got points for acting, cinematography and other things, but it lost major points in the category of, "Did it keep me on the edge of my seat?" It didn't; in fact there was a point where I was looking at my watch and wondering when it would end. It was a good story but the movie just kept going on and on then, just when it seemed like it would end, something would stop it from doing so. The cop killer angle was wonderful, and that he did it all for fame? That's incredible, too.
What would you do for your 15 minutes of fame?
MA 15+ (High level violence)
120 minutes (2:00 hours)
Film: 17 May 2001
DVD retail: 2 January 2002
