YMMV / 15 Minutes

• Complete Monster: Emil Slovak, arriving in America to get his share of the money from a bank heist, murders his associate and associate's girlfriend after they spent it. Emil finds out a witness named Daphne escaped and kills a "Czech" escort, thinking she knew Daphne. Emil, along with his partner Oleg Razgul, who films everything, confronts Detective Eddie Flemming and Fire Marshal Jordan Warsaw, who are investigating their crimes. Emil finds Eddie's home, confiding he'll escape prosecution by pleading insanity, and will end up rich and famous, and murders Eddie. Emil contacts Top Story anchor Robert Hawkins and sells him an edited tape of Eddie's death. Emil rigs Daphne's apartment to catch fire and explode, with Daphne and Warsaw barely escaping. After Top Story airs the video, Emil and Oleg are recognized, with Emil eventually getting arrested. Led to his arraignment, Emil shoots Oleg and grabs Eddie's girlfriend Nicolette, threatening to kill her during a police standoff.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans feel that the movie begins to run out of steam in the last act, after Eddie dies, the manhunt ends, and the trial sequence starts, so they try not to think about that section of the movie.
• The Woobie: Daphne, who is on the run for killing a policeman who tried to rape her little sister, is ruthlessly pursued by two psychotic criminals after witnessing them committing murder due to random chance, and is facing possible extradition at the hands of the people helping her.