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When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
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Unpretentious, contemporary, relentless and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- kendallgibsonon TMDB · Aug 20267/10
There's a saying in billiards: "Stripes deflect harder than chips." Make sure no arson investigators know you're gonna watch this movie, because they might finagle some hitherto unknown bylaw which forces you to watch it with them (with a bottle of Merlot and six boxes of lotion-free tissues!). Basically Robert De Niro plays the good cop to Edward Burns' bad arson investigator, in a New York City obsessed by the pseudo-homoerotic love story between a wily Czech and a roided-out Russian -- think Natural Born Killers meets Rush Hour! I'd not go into this one blind, unless you still own a functioning CRT and BetaMAX, because it is sure to cause time dysphoria (see: film induced psychosis) when you remember or realize this story could not have actually existed pre-smartphon- THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN REDACTED
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Cast
- Robert De NiroEddie Flemming
- Edward BurnsJordy Warsaw
- Kelsey GrammerRobert Hawkins
- Avery BrooksLeon Jackson
- Melina KanakaredesNicolette Karas
- Karel RodenEmil Slovak
- Oleg TaktarovOleg Razgul
- Vera FarmigaDaphne Handlova
- John DiRestaBobby Korfin
- James HandyCaptain Duffy
Crew
- John HerzfeldDirector
- John HerzfeldWriter
- Jean-Yves EscoffierDirector of Photography
- J. Peter RobinsonOriginal Music Composer
- Anthony MarinelliOriginal Music Composer
- Steven CohenEditor
- John HerzfeldProducer
- Nick WechslerProducer
- Keith AddisProducer
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