Yes, we are a bad little society. A society that glorifies it's criminals. Makes celebrities of monsters. Natural Born Killers did a better job at giving us that message. 15 Minutes force-feeds us morality without much entertainment to disguise it's sermon.
Victims have no rights.
This is a sad American, no world -wide fact. It's not exactly top-secret that DeNiro is one of our finest actors. But even Mr. Expressive couldn't save this long social message stitched into a blatantly commercial film. The story around him simply collapsed. He looked boring, like he'd talk New England sports all night.