Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

rixrex You know you've got a well-directed film when Michael Madsen turns in a well-done low-key performance, relatively speaking.Also fine performances from all others, especially Andrew Bryniarski as the tall bank robber. Very nice lead-in to the actual robbery to give us some of the character of the main subjects involved, and the lack of the LAPD to handle such a dangerous situation.It's still amazing that nobody but the bank robbers died in this 44 minute shoot-out. I recall seeing the live news reports and thinking that several cops and bystanders must have been killed.You will not be disappointed.

Claudio Carvalho On 28 February 1997, two men heavily armed with AK-47 try to heist the Bank of America of North Hollywood, but their plan fails and they are kept under siege by the LAPD. Along forty-four minutes, Los Angeles witnesses live on television one of the greatest shoot-out of the American history.Based on a true event, this movie impresses regarding the scenes of intense shoot-out, with the cast having also great performances. However, the statements of the characters, showing the LAPD as a brotherhood or family, do not seem to correspond to the reality showed in other police stories in American movies. Anyway, this film is a surprisingly good and worthwhile entertainment. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "44 Minutes - O Tiroteio de North Hollywood" ("44 Minutes - The North Hollywood Shoot-Out")

BigHardcoreRed This movie is surrounding the events of February 28, 1997 in Los Angeles. More specifically, a bank robbery gone wrong. Although I have heard of many inaccuracies in this movie, it was still an enjoyable action flick, despite the fact it was based on a true story.The shootout between the two bank robbers, Larry and Emil, and what seemed to be just about the entire LAPD lasted 44 minutes. This is a huge amount of time in real life and is probably the longest gunfight I have seen in the movies as well. I can't think of a longer one right now anyways. So after getting to know the characters just a little bit, it's on with the action, and it was gripping. The sight of the robbers, decked out in armor and standing in the line of fire and just taking hits and keeping it going was awesome. It reminded me of video games where you just keep shooting the bad guys but they never die. In fact, if I had one complaint about the movie, it would be that all the officers on the scene either could not figure out to shoot at their heads or were not capable. I guess the overwhelming firepower on the thieves behalf was just too much for them to think straight.Standouts in the cast are, of course, Michael Madsen, who can make anything fun to watch, even though his role here was limited. Mario Van Peebles played the deeply religious officer who tried to straighten up kids before it was too late. His character was very likable. Andrew Bryniarski and Oleg Taktarov were great villains, as always, but not much to them. Ron Livingston did good for his role but I don't know if it's just me, and thought he was a bit miscast, or am I just never going to get Peter Gibbons from Office Space out of my head. That's one of my favorite comedies and going from that to a hard nosed SWAT team cop wasn't doing it for me.Good movie, none the less. If nothing else, I can recommend it for the gunfight. 8/10

spd6147-1 This is what happens when crybabies cry about the police having those mean, imposing weapons in their vehicles or they break them out for such an incident. Fortunately, many police depts. Have learned from this incident and have set up patrol rifle programs deployed with street level patrol officers. Hoping that SWAT (or SPU as we call them in Seattle) will arrive can take up to a good hour for high power rifle deployment. As you can see from this movie it takes several LAPD to just try to keep them contained which was difficult at best. You wouldn't show up to a gunfight with a knife. By the same token you don't show up to a rifle firefight with a pistol. You don't have the range accuracy or distance. Body Armour will stop 9mm rounds but you don't have a chance with high power rifle rounds. The rounds will go straight through. Headshots are EXTREMELY difficult....suspect is moving so is officer, adranaline is pumping through you as you attempt to steady your pistol for what is more of a luckily shot than a well placed head shot. LAPD was extremely luckily. The citizens of North Hollywood should remember the tenacity of the LAPD who kept it from turning into a bloodbath. Luckily, the gun shop gave up every Most people don't like the cops till something like this happen and then they become the saviors. But such is life in our society. Officer D Blackmer Seattle PD