Slow Burn

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Slow Burn

R

Released Apr 13, 2007

1h 33m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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As ambitious District Attorney Ford Cole (Ray Liotta) prepares for his mayoral bid, he faces conflicting stories surrounding a man's death. His assistant DA and sometime lover, Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock), claims that the man tried to rape her. However, witness Luther Pinks (LL Cool J) tells a different tale. He says that, actually, she tried to seduce the victim to gather information about a mob chieftain.

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Critics Consensus

With wooden acting and hammy, overheated dialogue, Slow Burn isn't so much a noir as it is a mediocre parody of one.

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Toddy Burton

Austin Chronicle

The cast, particularly Liotta, walks around with befuddled expressions on their faces, perhaps wondering what on earth they're doing in this movie and how they can find a new agent ASAP.

Rated: 0.5/5

Mar 25, 2020

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Shelved for over a year, this incompetent mystery thriller stops periodically so some character or other can deliver an expository speech and pull the plot back on track, but by the end the story has turned into a hair ball.

Dec 3, 2007

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Scott Brown

Entertainment Weekly

A strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of The Usual Suspects and the Tragic Mulatto, Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro.

Rated: C+

Apr 18, 2007

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

An unappealing big city neo-noir film.

Rated: C+

Feb 27, 2018

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Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

A slow death.

Rated: 1/4

Aug 29, 2007

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David Cornelius

DVDTalk.com

The screenplay is riddled with so many problems, clichés, cheats, and borrowed ideas that the movie never takes off on a story level.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 24, 2007

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If you can suspend your disbelief (about how Nora and the elusive Danny could have set themselves up), this is actually a very good movie

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Sorry Liotta , this is not the movie i gonna remember from ...The movie never seems to start on a decent level . SOMDVD

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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don s

This mystery takes its title too seriously, especially the slow part. The first 2/3 of the movie moves at a glacial pace. By the time it kick starts in the final 1/3, you really don't much care how it ends. There are so many turns fit into that last few scenes it nearly makes your head spin. The story does come together in a manner that makes sense, it just takes way to long to get there to make it worthwhile.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

It was an okay movie, with a twist.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Audience Member

Horrible. That's it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

I love me some L.L and Mehki Phifer!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Synopsis

As ambitious District Attorney Ford Cole (Ray Liotta) prepares for his mayoral bid, he faces conflicting stories surrounding a man's death. His assistant DA and sometime lover, Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock), claims that the man tried to rape her. However, witness Luther Pinks (LL Cool J) tells a different tale. He says that, actually, she tried to seduce the victim to gather information about a mob chieftain.

Director: Wayne Beach
Producer: Fisher Stevens, Sidney Kimmel, Bonnie Timmermann, Tim Williams
Screenwriter: Wayne Beach
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: DEJ Productions, GreeneStreet Films Inc.
Rating: R (Violence|Sexuality|Language)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 13, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.2M
Runtime: 1h 33m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby SRD
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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