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Slow Burn

Play trailer Poster for Slow Burn R 2007 1h 33m Crime Drama Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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9% Tomatometer 34 Reviews 54% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
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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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 03/25/2020
0.5/5
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. Go to Full Review J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 12/03/2007
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. Go to Full Review Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly 04/18/2007
C+
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. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 02/27/2018
C+
An unappealing big city neo-noir film. Go to Full Review Kam Williams NewsBlaze 08/29/2007
1/4
A slow death. Go to Full Review David Cornelius DVDTalk.com 07/24/2007
2/5
The screenplay is riddled with so many problems, clichés, cheats, and borrowed ideas that the movie never takes off on a story level. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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07/20/2019 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 See more 12/15/2015 Sorry Liotta , this is not the movie i gonna remember from ...The movie never seems to start on a decent level . SOMDVD See more don s @RT97868663 10/05/2014 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. See more 01/24/2013 It was an okay movie, with a twist. See more 11/24/2012 Horrible. That's it. See more 08/16/2012 I love me some L.L and Mehki Phifer! See more Read all reviews
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Wayne Beach

Director

Ray Liotta

Ford Cole

LL Cool J

Luther Pinks

Jolene Blalock

Nora Timmer

Mekhi Phifer

Isaac Duparde

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Trippin

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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)