The plot - at once convoluted and transparent - seems little more than a frame upon which a series of soft focus sex scenes might be hung.
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04/13/07
Slow Burn (2007)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:4
Rotten:29
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: With wooden acting and hammy, overheated dialogue, Slow Burn isn't so much a noir as it is a mediocre parody of one.
Reviews for Slow Burn
A lesson in how not to make a multiple-viewpoint mystery.
04/16/07
A derivative mess.
04/13/07
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.
12/03/07
As tiresome as it is beholden to a dozen (much better) crime stories.
04/13/07
If you have not figured out the identity of Luden by the finale, it will only be because you do not care.
04/16/07
The screenplay is riddled with so many problems, clichés, cheats, and borrowed ideas that the movie never takes off on a story level.
07/24/07
The millisecond its all over you’ll be wondering if the ink has dried on the court papers filed by Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie.
09/22/05
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.
04/18/07
Its cavalcade of 'twists' in the last 20 minutes come off the conveyor belt so quickly and haphazardly that they all wind up in a big pile on the floor, waiting to be snorted at by incredulous viewers.
04/16/07
Slow Burn tries to be smolder, but ultimately there's no heat.
04/17/07
The theme of racial confusion that attempts to underlie this would-be noirish murder mystery becomes just one more unintentionally hilarious aspect...
04/16/07
John Grisham meets The Usual Suspects by way of late-night Cinemax in this derivative thriller.
04/16/07
Top CriticWriter-director Wayne Beach figures if you liked Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie’s big climactic reversal, you’ll love four of them in a row!
04/16/07
Teeming with lurid atmosphere, Slow Burn touches on mutual stalking, inner city gangsta capitalism, and detonation of a ghetto as part of a lucrative urban removal gentrification scheme concocted by the city elite.
04/15/07
Beach's storytelling tactics, much like the film as a whole, would simply be annoying if they weren't also borderline insulting.
04/13/07
Top CriticOne wonders why Slow Burn wasn't just dumped completely.
04/17/07
Easy to understand why Slow Burn sat on the shelf for four years, but harder to understand why it didn't go straight to DVD or Showtime late night.
04/18/07
Nothing is what it seems -- unless it seems cheesy.
04/16/07
Slow Burn is a wooden police thriller that is as dull as it is impenetrable and ultimately beyond ludicrous.
04/16/07
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