He steals a digital camcorder and starts to film the activities of himself and his pal. So he allows Oleg to continue filming, especially when their thuggeries and murders expand past their initial revenge. As counterpoint to this pair, there are two New York law men, a detective and a fire marshal, who are on their trail. The chief argues that media attention will swell his departmental budget. The detective and marshal chase the criminal pair through 15 Minutes .
Blood flows, buildings burn.
Without tautology, the film is the film. Only in the closing sequences does this picture sink from what it is into being merely a movie. Karel Roden as Emil is sufficiently scary and clever. Oleg Taktarov as Oleg is the stock husky village idiot of European fiction, equipped here with a digital camcorder. Edward Burns, remembered as the mutinous soldier from Saving Private Ryan , carries the fire marshal angrily along.