HughBennie-777 Queasy mixture of right-wing sentimentality and fetishistic displays of incredible artillery destruction. As high velocity bullets evacuate cars, property, and humans, accompanied by gorgeous sound design, the presentation is in that insulting, shitty as all hell "CSI"style, with unwanted smash cuts, jump cuts, stutter-cuts, smash zoom-outs, unmotivated zooms, etc. This all intended to somehow enhance the scenes of people re-enacting one of America's most deadly and terrifying shootouts. The characterizations of the bad guys is almost Mack Sennett. As if casting two over-sized Eastern European heads wasn't enough, they have to scowl and leer and smack their lips. At least cinema's most notorious cop-killer Michael Madsen gets to play a saintly detective. On spectacle standards, the movie delivers in spades its volcanic gun battle, with at least 40,000 squibs and exploding cars providing scenery. The propaganda which follows, nearly rhapsodizing over the day when police get to carry machine guns, is childish--considering the movie's immature style.. Does the cinematic splendor of the preceding shootout deserve to have its day with police officers firing modified AK-47s?

martoskirov This is definitely one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The acting was mediocre , the plot was terrible, it was extremely unrealistic mainly due to the fact that 2 guys (and i don't care if they were wearing body armor) were able to start an open shoot-out with a 100 cops and almost win. My favorite part was in the end when one of the SWAT guys was heavily armored except for the waist downwards he was wearing shorts and some sneakers. I've heard that they have to react extremely quickly but this is ridiculous. I laughed my ass of at that point. If it were meant to be a comedy I'd give the movie a 10 but sadly that is not the case.

Liquidon_Snake This film hit home in all ways. From the faithful Henry Jones, to the testament of true police nature by Madsen and Livingston, "44 Minutes" presented us with a display of the true meaning of the duty of the American Police Officer. This film brings out the definition of the real-life hero, the real-life villain, and the real-life story that binds them. The actors are true to their characters, and can undoubtedly bring great honor and respect to the real men and women who experienced the crisis. As for the villains, well, they deserve the shame they get from the people who see this film, because, in my belief, Taktarov and Bryniarski portrayed the true criminals accurately down to the finest detail. Even though I feel that the respects to the true men and women shown in the end were no less than morally mandatory, I am duly impressed by the fact that such respect was shown in full, and it is exactly what the true people deserve. This film deserves an 11, but since it can't get one, a 10 will do it justice.

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