Watched 15 minutes. Although the movie was released in 2001, and featured Robert de Niro, it didn’t catch my interest until yesterday.

The movie starts like many action movies and I prepared myself to two hours of thoughtless entertainment. Two foreigners arrive at the USA and commit a violent murder. A homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop them. So far, the usual Hollywoodian stuff. But the movie takes off in a totally different direction when the criminals realize they can use use loopholes in the laws, the power of the media, and American culture to get away with their crimes.

Using heavy irony and black humor, the movie entertains and provokes the viewer well beyond its last minute (during the credits the director makes a final tirade) with a powerful social satire which is too uncomfortably close to reality

In short, a good movie worth the time I spent seeing it.