At times the dialogue is sharp and almost insightful, but often he slips into tired catch phrases like "That's not what you said last night." Such clichés may work for low-grade action movies, but dipping into dramatic thrillers requires leaving such nonsense behind. Where he falters, and boy does he falter, is in the unnecessarily confusing way he tells his story, his inability to acknowledge that he's blatantly copying a far superior film, and in some of the tired dialogue, which by rights ought to be his strong suit since he's better known as an action screenwriter than anything else. There's plenty to enjoy in Slow Burn starting with first time director Wayne Beach, who does a nice job coaching his excellent cast and maintain the dark, seedy tone of the movie. Even if that basic premise has already been tested more or less comprehensively in immortal classics like Soul Man, it's nonetheless unfortunate that more isn't made of this fairly intriguing framework.
JOLENE BLALOCK SLOW BURN PROFESSIONAL
The kicker, which is actually something of a refreshing surprise, is that, instead of a black woman attempting to mask her ethnicity to blend in, Blalock's character may actually be a white woman masquerading to climb more rapidly up the professional ladder. in a area where the majority of defendants and jurors are of minority descent. Where Slow Burn attempts to separate itself is in its racial undercurrent, exemplified in the role-reversed problems faced by a white D.A.
JOLENE BLALOCK SLOW BURN MOVIE
So easy, in fact, that I'll do it again: this movie is a superficially controversial rip-off of The Usual Suspects. Sound at all familiar? It's easy to dismiss this movie as a superficially controversial rip-off of The Usual Suspects. The talented cast swirls about in a maelstrom of racial politics for about 90 minutes as each character recounts the same few stories from slightly different angles, as the film zeroes in on the possible revelation of Danny's true identity. More on that in a moment.) Rounding out the cast we have LL Cool J as Duperde's mysterious friend, Taye Diggs as yet another post-graduate gangster, and Chiwetel Ejiofor playing a slick reporter bent on interviewing the would-be mayor. (This may seem like ill-informed casting at first glance, but in fact it's intentional. In the context of the movie, Blalock plays a black woman, or at least a woman of mixed heritage, which is why her character resonates so well with urban juries in gang-related trials.
With a preposterous supervillain lurking in the background, the plot begins with the death of Isaac Duperde (Mekhi Phifer), who was allegedly killed while raping Cole's best prosecutor, Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock).
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