Walking in to 15 Minutes , I was afraid of what I might find. This movie had a lot going for it. Walking out of the theater one hour fifty-nine minutes later, I had a wide grin covering my face. I d hoped it would be and more. 15 Minutes begins strong and ends strong it puts another mark on the board for the everyday little-guy hero.
Few movies accomplish through great acting and writing a sense that a protagonist is truly a hero.
Sure, there are movies like Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan , movies in which we are instructed that certain characters are and should be heroes. But in 15 Minutes , the decision-making is left to the audience and is pulled off brilliantly. If anything bad could be said about the movie, it would not come from anywhere even close to the acting. Spectacular performances by Olig Taktarov and Karel Roden, the two media-driving villains, as well as De Niro and Burns light up the screen as homicide detective Eddie Flemming and arson investigator Jordy Warsaw. The latter two have a great on-screen relationship and pull together a conquering aura of trust and power.