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Title: Slow Burn (2005)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ray Liotta | ... | Ford Cole | |
| LL Cool J | ... | Luther Pinks (as James Todd Smith) | |
| Mekhi Phifer | ... | Isaac Duperde | |
| Jolene Blalock | ... | Nora Timmer | |
| Guy Torry | ... | Chet Price | |
| Taye Diggs | ... | Jeffrey Sykes | |
| Chiwetel Ejiofor | ... | Ty Trippin | |
| Bruce McGill | ... | Godfrey | |
| Frank Schorpion | ... | Maybank | |
| Donny Quinn | ... | Delucca (as Donny Falsetti) | |
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Barbara Alexander | ... | Pratt |
| Joe Grifasi | ... | Desk Sgt. Drown | |
| Richard Jutras | ... | Leland Neff | |
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Arthur Holden | ... | Felix Lang |
| Fisher Stevens | ... | Alan Turlock | |
District attorney Ford Cole is running for mayor, promising to capture the city's elusive crime boss, Danny Ludin. On the night of a gas link in the inner city, his interview with a national reporter is interrupted by word that his best prosecutor, Nora Timmer, who's also his lover, has killed a man she claims was assaulting her. A few minutes later, a man shows up at Cole's office claiming it was murder, implicating Nora in complicated schemes and crimes. Cole wants a few hours to get to the bottom of a mess that quickly includes land deals, shell corporations, and political corruption. Who's setting up whom? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I remember growing up on films such as The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Fugitive, films with enough plot twists and turns to keep things fresh and interesting. I was more than pleasantly surprised to see excellent performances from an otherwise pieced-together cast of Ray Liotta, Taye Diggs, LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and of course Jolene Blalock. I enjoyed every minute of this film whose score and choice of background, and especially credit, music made it all that much more memorable.
Personally, I love films in, around, or about the city. Without giving anything away, Slow Burn deals with corruption and a little gang-related mystery; all the while providing that sense of empathy for Liotta's character that seems all too absent in modern films today.
No, this film is not for everyone, but if you can remember what it was like to be genuinely stringed along and interested in what happens at every twist and turn of those 90's film plots, then you should find yourself feeling that you got you're 9.50's worth on a Friday night.