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DiscountDelight - Inside Man (Widescreen Edition)
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Kim Director, James Ransone, Bernie Rachelle, Peter Gerety, Victor Colicchio, Cassandra Freeman, Peter Frechette, Gerry Vichi, Waris Ahluwalia, Rafael Osorio, Rodney 'Bear' Jackson, Daryl Mitchell, Ashlie Atkinson
Directed By: Spike Lee
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0025192884726
Format: AC-3
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2006-08-08
Running Time: 129
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2006-03-24
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Summary: nothing happened garanteed!
Comment: i looked at my watch all along the film to know when this is going to end....
good luck
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Summary: Prest-o Change-o
Comment: The cast including Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, and Christopher Plummer is outstanding. Spike Lee directing has always impressed me but his movies are not usually for the whole family. In fact it is rare that the whole family can sit down and watch an adult movie these days that will be only slightly offensive to some. Here is such a movie. At first you will think you know what is happening, then you will figure it out. That is until the next scene. This is one of those, so you think you know what is going to happen next movies. The ending will make you satisified and on many levels, including lack of real violence. After all it is the perfect bank robbery.
We are led to believe this movie is about bank robbers and hostages with a tense stand off with police. Okay there is some of that, but it goes much further. Do the robbers intend to take the money? No, but perhaps not what you think to substitute for it. The story unfolds so that we now think an outside negotiator will settle the deal and that's the end of it. But no we have an honest detective that wants the whole story and that is where it will all end when he lays all the cards on the table. I recommend this to the whole family. It is slick enough that it has replayability and I suggest those that like movies like "The Italian Job" buy it since it has the suspense and con stuff less the violence.
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Summary: Spike Lee Does Not Disappoint
Comment: Saw the first showing of this the day it came out and it did not disappoint - the opening sequence with Clive Owen followed by the music track "Chaiyya Chaiyya" while going through Coney Island by itself was enough to give a big thumbs up from me - I fell in love with that track I was so glad they put it on the soundtrack. Extremely well done all-around with enough twists and turns to keep you busy for a week - and Spike Lee once again captures the atmosphere/mood/time so well that's probably what impressed me most of all. It's definitely one movie that won't have you looking at your watch every few minutes wishing it was over!
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Summary: Spike Lee's Straight Story
Comment: After "Clockers" I gave up on Spike Lee. Even though he is a talented moralist, boring and rote is still boring and rote. So it was with some trepidation that I picked up "Inside Man." Could he keep his predilections under wraps for once, the way Lynch did with "Straight Story"? The answer is mostly yes.* It's a great detective-drama-action movie, a whodunit with good characters and articulate plot twists. Even people like me who have grown skeptical of Spike Lee's abilities would be pleased with the movie.
* He still couldn't resist totally gratuitous references to violent video games, white cop bigotry and proper gun safety.
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Summary: Tight first half; oddly rambling plot towards the end
Comment: Others here have told the plot line well. I will just add that the early sequences are nicely filmed and the story is immediately engaging.
Denzel plays an aging detective who has little in the way of heroics in his repertoire. He's a bad dresser, laughs too loud, but brings some intelligence to the job. Nevertheless, one wonders what the sex-kitten girlfriend sees in him. Jodi Foster plays a villain, and she does a great job of being truly unlikeable.
I've never been a fan of Clive Owen, and he does little to change my mind here. His character -- the lead bankrobber -- does a lot of posturing and swearing and does a good job of intimidating his hostages, but it's a bit hard to see what part of that character would care to shame an exNazi [the reason for the heist at that PARTICULAR bank]. Willem DaFoe is credible as a cop, but not much is asked of him here. Christopher Plummer seems not sufficiently old enough to have made a lot of money during WWII and still be as young as he seems at the time of the robbery.
There are references to Dog Day Afternoon (1975), another heist-turned-hostage-crisis film based on a real event. And like Spike Lee's other films, there is some social criticism regarding race, violence, and power.
All in all, there are nice plot twists and turns until the end, where it takes too many additional scenes to tie up the loose ends.
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Spike Lee scored his biggest hit to date with Inside Man, an unconventional thriller with fascinating details in the margins of its convoluted plot. The screenplay (by first-timer Russell Gerwitz) could've used a few more rewrites; it moves at a brisk pace but in hindsight a lot of it doesn't make sense. That makes Inside Man more fun to watch than to think about afterwards (when you discover plot holes big enough to drive a truck through), but it's curiously involving, especially as NYPD Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) struggles to outsmart a high-stakes bank robber (Clive Owen) who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank, turning what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As you might expect from the director of Do the Right Thing, Lee seizes several satisfying opportunities to examine post-9/11 issues of racial prejudice and domestic terrorism, and the mysterious "problem solver" Madeline White (Jodie Foster), as eerily sinister as she is vaguely defined, is worthy of her own movie. With the benefit of his most stellar cast to date (including Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe and Chiwetel Ejiofor), Lee seems more interested in character details than well-crafted suspense, but that doesn't stop Inside Man from being engrossing, subtly amusing, and quirky enough to qualify as a welcomed break from the formulaic thrillers that are Hollywood's bread and butter.--Jeff Shannon
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