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Show The Salt Lake Tribune CALENDARFriday, March 9, 2001 *15 Minutes’ Wallows in What It Deplores “The Blair Witch Project,” and a BY SEAN P. MEANS 15 Minutes ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE zero stars It’s nothing new for a movie to intelligence, minutes. @ Opening today everywhere. against media manipulation, “15 Minutes”follows the killing spree of Czech thug Emil Slovak (Karel Roden). Slovak amasses a brutal body count around Manhattan, Nicky Karas (Melina Kanakare- des,the star ofTV's “Providence”, anda blustering tabloid-showhost, with his Russian accomplice Oleg Robert Hawkins Grammer). (Oleg Taktarov) shooting video of each murder, plus arson. The murders attract the famous NYPD homicide detective Eddie Flemming (Robert DeNiro), while ‘the arson gets the attention of a young New York Fire Department investigator, Jordy Warsaw (Edward Burns). The combination namely Hawkins’ “if itae it leads” reports and Gowers, a smarmy scene where Flemming practices a marriage proposal in a men’s room is a warning that, after “Taxi Driver,” a mirror is the one co-star. with which DeNiro should never again work.) The movie's excesses extend to Oleg’s lurid videos, whichplaylike nauseatingly bad outtakes from Edward Bums,left, and Robert DeNiro in “15 Minutes.” ACADEMY AWARDNOMINATIONS izing gets buried in the same blood-splattered imagery heis dising. In essence, “15 Minutes” ely Cais is a gratuitously violent movie de- crying the media’s gratuitous violence — and becomes part of the problem it thinks it is trying to solve. Te is rare fora Hollywood movie to stimulate meaningful debate ‘about social policy, but that has been the case with “Traffic:Steven Soderbergh’s gritty depiction of the drug wars that has been nominated for an Academy Award® as best picture” -saere, maa, Fat27 filled talk shows — has convinced him that the road to riches is brings in the press, including a microphone-pushing (Kelsey The kicker comes when Emil demands $1 million from Hawkins for Oleg’s footage of their last and most spectacular murder, which Hawkins pays. Emil’s hctiel exposure to Americ Niro’s scenes with the puppydogeager Burns Rave their charm. whose Tarantino-esque debut “2 Days in the Valley” launched her career.) 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