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It all adds up to one of the most brazen pieces of blame-shifting in exploitation-picture history.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
The Czech Republic and Russia, the respective homes of Emil and Oleg, should sue.
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Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
If Detroit had produced an equivalent lemon, we might have been seeing the world's first one-wheeled, square-tired car with no cooling system, steering wheel or brakes.
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The surprise here isn't that 15 Minutes isn't a masterpiece; it's that the movie works at all.
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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
15 Minutes settles into Richard Donner-style goulash.
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Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow
The unearned air of moralism that wafts through 15 Minutes pollutes its entertainment value.
25
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Is less an end in itself than an excuse, a jumping off point for showy, contrived, borderline exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money shot thrills.
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Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Big, loud and lurid, but no less entertaining for that.
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Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
It takes a concerted effort to make a movie as relentlessly stupid and grating as 15 Minutes.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A cynical, savage satire about violence, the media and depravity. It doesn't have the polish of "Natural Born Killers" or the wit of "Wag the Dog," but it's a real movie, rough edges and all, and not another link from the sausage factory.