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.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Mar 25, 2020

An unappealing big city neo-noir film.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 27, 2018

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

A slow death.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 29, 2007

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2007

Barely flickers as a far-fetched urban tale of chameleon-like characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 28, 2007

...the story is intriguing enough to hold our interest through all the film noir pretensions...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2007

When a movie has been sitting around since 2003, why wouldn't you just throw it at the DVD shelf rather than subjecting big-screen audiences to it?

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Apr 18, 2007

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.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 18, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 18, 2007

One wonders why Slow Burn wasn't just dumped completely.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 17, 2007

Slow Burn tries to be smolder, but ultimately there's no heat.

| Apr 17, 2007

The theme of racial confusion that attempts to underlie this would-be noirish murder mystery becomes just one more unintentionally hilarious aspect...

| Apr 16, 2007

Deficiencies aside, Slow Burn is almost worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 16, 2007

If you have not figured out the identity of Luden by the finale, it will only be because you do not care.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 16, 2007

The bigger problem is that for all the plot turns and reversals and flashes of action that Beach has structured into his film, there's an elusive extra something that's missing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 16, 2007

John Grisham meets The Usual Suspects by way of late-night Cinemax in this derivative thriller.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2007

Writer-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!

Full Review | Apr 16, 2007

Nothing is what it seems -- unless it seems cheesy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 16, 2007

A lesson in how not to make a multiple-viewpoint mystery.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 16, 2007