(rated R) Moving out of comic success (Analyze This and Meet The Parents) Robert DeNiro returns to what he does best. Superstar N.Y. Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming (Robert DeNiro) enlists a young, talented, pretty boy, N Y Fire Dept. Arson Investigator, Jordy Warsaw (Edward Burns) to team up with him to track down a pair of Eastern European killers (Karel Roden and Oleg Taktarov) on a rampage through the city. Clever, unpredictable and ferocious, the immigrants quickly learn how to use the celebrity of their pursuers to spin their own stardom into an explosion of media and judicial madness. All it takes is watching a lot of daytime television to realize they can come up with a get rich-quick scheme that will air while they’re in jail releasing them as wealthy men. Against type-cast Kelsey Grammar portrays a sleazy talk show host whose ratings mean more than public safety! DeNiro makes for a better active cop than he did in “Flawless” and this movie is laced with a “Natural Born Killers” tone minus the shock, but with the same messages that fame is so bad it’s good. Oleg needs to practice in operating a handheld DV camera making the taped murders more of a headache (literally) for the viewer.
