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The one tag about Spike Lee films is that you’re never certain what you’re going to procure. I’m not really a fan, I collect that his films are too convoluted with extraneous detail and somewhat over produced. Inside Man retains all the elements of a solid bank robbery/caper film, whilst also giving us Spike Lee’s trademark of gritty, street-wise irreverence.
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The quandary with Inside Man is that it’s impossibly extraordinary with a location that strains the realms of credibility; combine this with it’s over-long running time and you have a film that features some ample performances by it’s cast - Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer and Jodie Foster - but ultimately sags a bit in the middle and ends up becoming rather ponderous.
Lee manages to pull off a handful of effective scenes, but he doesn’t have the flair to bring the whole movie off with precise conviction. An enigmatic master criminal (Owen) - who spends most of the movie wearing a shroud - plans and executes a “genius idea” in which he and several masked companions prefer over a Lower Manhattan bank and brutally retract several dozen of its customers as hostages.
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The NYPD negotiator given the task of dealing with these crooks is an affable junior detective, Detective Keith Frazier (Washington) - under a cloud of suspicion from a previous case - he soon surmises that the perpetrators don’t actually want the bank’s money. Enter smarmy and pretty Novel York political insider Madeline White (Foster) who knows everybody and even has the ear of the Mayor.
Madeline is hired by the chairman of the bank’s board of directors (Plummer) to oversee the crisis and originate obvious that clear secrets he has in his safe-deposit box cease secret. The bulk of the film involves the standoff between the bank robbers and the NYPD as they try frantically to ensure that the hostages remain honorable.
Of course we know the hostages survive because Lee inserts interview footage of them after the heist is over, this scheme, however, tips off the outcome, dissipates suspense and fast becomes humdrum. This is impartial one of the many techniques Lee uses to clutter the movie’s structure and prevent the site from unfolding as speedy as it should.
Obviously, everyone has something to veil, particularly the bank president, but when his past is revealed, it finally appears with a bit of a thud, with the movie going through to powerful anxiety to come at very small. In all fairness, Inside Man has some moving things to say about accelerate, money, power and the ethics of urban living, particularly in Original York and the performances are wonderfully cynical and gritty.
Washington is sexy and strong, Foster is skillfully odious as the frosty, sophisticated and amoral Madeline who cares for nothing but chasing spacious bucks, Owen is morbidly compelling as the clear heavy and Plummer is letter-perfect as the guilt-ridden bank honcho.
Lee, however, impartial doesn’t seem able to bring all the disparate elements of a heist film into a convincing and gratifying whole and in the end; the movie is vaguely unsatisfying and impossibly far-fetched. Mike Leonard August 06.
Everything about INSIDE MAN makes the viewer want to like this film: Spike Lee as director, a shapely cast, a fine musical procure that sounds a bit like Bollywood music, a theme that invites social comment.
For this viewer the terrific ingredients do not add up to a recent suspense thriller of a film. The tale is a variation of hundreds of other films (writer Russell Gewirtz somehow got away with unprejudiced an outline of a script of holes) and the technique of telling the tale - interspersing post incident interviews with the people interested in the caper - makes it thud along.
Denzel Washington is his usual fair acting self, playing a cop with his occupy demons. Chiwetel Ejiofor is solid as his partner. Clive Owen spends the better fraction of the film late a cover but continues his reputation for still and noteworthy characterizations as the bank robber. Christopher Plummer is convincing as the aid president with secrets to cover, which Jodie Foster as a middle-woman manages to manipulate. Willem Defoe is glorious as the cop in charge. They all execute well in roles they could do in their sleep.
Clocking in at over two hours the film seems to go over some inconsequential details in an attempt to hide the holes in the script. Spike Lee makes it work because of his style. But in the ruin the yarn isn’t engrossing enough to have our attention (’been there, done that’) and this viewer, for one, fell asleep during portions when the film slowed for unknown reasons. Cherish the director and the actors, pass on the film. Grady Harp, August 06
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