15 Minutes           Cert 18

Depending on your point of view, Andy Warhol was either a visionary pop artist of the 1960's or a mediocre painter of soup cans, but the one thing he's definitely known for is the quote `In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes'.
Well, according to the director John Herzfeld that future is now. He shows us how America has degenerated into a nation where the search for celebrity, fame and money is everything and television will help you fulfil your quest as long as you've got a story to sell.
Oleg and Emil are two eastern European killers who arrive in America with such a quest. Immediately, Emil steals a video camera to record their adventures and then he and Oleg go in search of Milos, a friend of Oleg's who looking after the proceeds of a previous robbery.
Unfortunately,  Milos has unwisely spent all the loot and Oleg in a fit of rage brutally kills both him and his wife, and then sets fire to their apartment. All of this is recorded on Emil's video camera and also seen by the next door neighbour, Daphne.   
It's at this point we're introduced to Eddie Flemming and Jordy Warsaw. Flemming  (played by Robert DeNiro) is a street wise New York city cop who knows what it takes to make both himself and a story look good on T.V. while Warsaw is a young, idealistic arson investigator who thinks television cameras are unwanted intrusions into his job.
Two people who, in normal life, you'd think would never ever get on, but hey, we're talking  Hollywood here, and so both Eddie and Jordy form a mutual bond. Teaming up they try to stop Oleg and Emil as they career, kill and film their way across New York in their search for the glamourous neighbour Daphne who can link them to their grisly crime.
Add into all this  a slick T.V. reporter Robert Hawkins (marvellously played by Kelsey Grammer) who's always looking for the latest ratings winner and you've got the recipe for a couple of hours of nail biting action that's laced with some really dark humour. Humour that supposedly distracts from some of the more graphically violent scenes.
Oh yeah there's one more thing I must tell you before I go, and that's about three quarters of the way through the film something happens that you really don't expect. I won't tell you what it is because that'll spoil the surprise, but  in the words of ace T.V. reporter Robert Hawkins `If it bleeds it leads'.