STARRING: Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Vera Farmiga,

LINE ON THE POSTER: America Likes to Watch

WHAT HAPPENS: When Oleg and Emil arrive in America, fresh from getting out of prison in Russia, to reclaim the stolen money their friend escaped with, it looks like there's going to be one hell of a lot of trouble. Especially when they're armed with a sharp knife and a video camera. So when a fire and an apparent homicide arise in Oleg's and Emil's bank robbing accomplice's flat, detective Eddie Flemming (De Niro) and arson investigator Jordy Warsaw (Burns) have a case on their hands. However with the video camera, the Russian psycho's have a powerful weapon and the media wants the results to feed the public with more reality TV. So how far will they go to get their 15 minutes of fame?

ANY GOOD?: What a waste of a cast and an idea. Although it's better than the awful trailer makes out, this is pretty much a dead dog of a movie, slow moving and painful to watch. Robert De Niro has made some poor career decisions recently and although his supreme ability can't be doubted, he's given little to work with in the two-dimensional character of celebrity detective Eddie Flemming. The same applies to Edward Burns and Kelsey Grammer, two great actors who offer little to a poor movie. Whilst the redeeming feature of the darkness involved with us watching a violent film about the public watching violence is lost in a messy and sloppy Hollywood ending that comes from the first page of 'Film-Makers Clichés to Avoid' guide. Little more than half-entertaining switch-off fodder for a Saturday night, but that's probably the point... isn't it?

BEST BIT: The home videos the Russians keep making are funny, in between the mindless violence, because they are quite reminiscent of the Dogme films (low budget, Danish art house anti-Hollywood productions).

INTERESTING FACT: The title is a reference to the famous Andy Warhol quote, that 'everybody at sometime in their life will be famous for 15 minutes.'

LIKED IT, TRY: Heat, Two Days in the Valley or Funny Games