Inside Man

Year of release : 2006

Run time : 2h9min

Genre : Crime / Thriller

Cast : Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Willem Dafoe, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer

Director : Spike Lee

After we see Dalton Russell in a video claiming he committed the perfect bank robbery, we see him and his colleagues entering the bank, dressed as house painters,with masks and sun glasses on,holding the hostages at gun point, taking their phones and keys. After, they make them strip, and put on painter coveralls, just like theirs. They divide the hostages into groups,putting them in different rooms, and they starts inserting themselves into the groups.

We also see them taking turns at demolishing the floor of the bank.

Police surround the bank, and detective Frazier comes to the scene.

When Dalton asks for food, the police decide to bug the pizza boxes. They hear someone talking in a foreign language and they think it's Russian,but it turns out to be Albanian.

 

When the bank's founder and chairman hears of the robbery,he hires a fixer to find a way to retrieve the important documents he has inside the bank under a box number which doesn't exist on paper.

What if that's what the robbers are trying to steal? Could they get away with it?

I personally enjoyed the movie, it pulls you in, it doesn't have a dull moment,it's entertaining, the way a movie should be.

I liked the little bit I saw of Frazier's relationship (I loved how he stopped the fight which was about to start with his girlfriend-we should all take lessons from it) .

The buildings and the interior design,basically the architecture, was very beautiful,as a viewer we have what to look at,it's not just what's going on between the characters.

The acting was good,everybody was at the top of their game. Jodie Foster looked classy and beautiful in this movie. I really loved her look.

If there were any visual effects I guess they were good, since I didn't notice them.

 

The soundtrack was good.

The movie grossed 184.4 million dollars against a budget of 45 to 60 million, being the highest grossing movie of Spike Lee's career.

The movie received positive reviews, Cinema Score audiences giving it a B+ on an A+ to F scale.

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Rating : It's so money!