Inside Man (Widescreen Edition)
by Spike Lee
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Actor: Christopher Plummer, Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Willem DafoeDirector: Spike Lee
Brand: NBC Universal
Producer: Brian Grazer
Producer: Daniel M. Rosenberg
Producer: Jon Kilik
Producer: Jonathan Filley
Producer: Karen Kehela Sherwood
Producer: Kim Roth
Writer: Russell Gewirtz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Albanian (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Inside Man (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Inside Man -- Ingenious!
Summary: 5 Stars
Inside Man is not a clear cut story of good guys and bad guys, although it starts out that way. Inside Man dares, in the post 9-11 era, to depict a group of terrorists in New York City with a morally ambiguous, possibly even compelling motive, and whose motto might well be "We Will Never Forget".
Criminal mastermind Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) remarks that "Respect is the ultimate currency, " and "If you love each other, money really shouldn't matter." Why? The giant "We Will Never Forget" banner sprawls across the screen several times, and forms the subtext of this entire story. But if you don't understand the duality of that banner, you're not grasping what this movie is all about.
There's a lot more here than first meets the eye. Inside Man takes the heist film to another level, leaving simple-minded "terrorist" thrillers like "Die Hard" in the dust, with the most ingenious heist plot going, period -- a killer cast, a wonderful score, fabulous camera work (some mind-bending, big budget crane shots -- they make those moves look so easy but they're not!), crackling Mamet-grade dialogue, and a distinctive flash-forward editing style that actually helps viewer understanding and is a hallmark of the film's unique, hip style, courtesy of director Spike Lee.
The "victim", bank chairman Arthur Case, impeccably played by the avuncular and agreeable Christopher Plummer, is a man with Nazi genocide in his past. The chief bank robber, performed "to perfection" by Clive Owen, is looking to enrich himself but also to reveal crimes against humanity. In a puzzling and peculiar fashion he is to us both a hero and a thief. Jodie Foster as Madeleine White is the perpetually smiling fixer working for the bank chairman, trying to insure a good political outcome for her client. Denzel Washington as Detective Frazier heads the cast as the straight man cop trying to figure out what the heck is going on here. And no one is quite what they seem.
With a philanthrophic bank executive as it's central villain, I-M is perhaps more timely and topical now than when it was first released in 2005. I particularly enjoyed how Madeleine White gets under the mayor's (and Arthur Case's) skin -- and the extremely smart bit where those characters, once out of the public eye, suddenly change their conversation in the blink of an eye from philanthropy to the lobbyist's language of coercion.
Like a mandela, the layers of good and evil, truth and lies, weave in and out on multiple levels. Much like life, nothing is as simple or clear cut as it seems.
There were many ways the events in this film could have unfolded to us. The timeline of the film is mostly linear, except for the "flash-forward", somewhat solarized hostage interviews which, positioned as they are, serve an intercutting function and break up the action nicely. The interrogations of the ex-hostages are terribly important because, after all, that's how the cops think they're going to break the case -- by finding the inside man. But if the hostage interviews had been piled up at the end of the movie, they would have been too much all at once and brought the movie to a stop.
Aside from the highly motivated characters, this film has a tremendous sense of humor and irony, and most of it comes out in the fact that the hostages are humiliated and bullied by the robbers AND the police. It is, in fact, the police who shoot rubber bullets at the hostages -- the robbers never fire a shot from their toy guns.
As a footnote, the main and end title designs were very nicely done, and in a rarity, the end credits depict all the orchestral players by instrument. Nice.
Inside Man -- remarkably ingenious, refreshing, tight structure, consistently engaging, never drops a beat, brilliant!
Summary of Inside Man (Widescreen Edition)
Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, Academy Award nominee Clive Owen and Academy Award winner Jodie Foster star in this intense and explosive crime thriller. The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind (Owen), a determined detective (Washington), and a power broker with a hidden agenda (Foster). As the minutes tick by and the situation becomes increasingly tense, one wrong move could mean disaster for any one of them. From acclaimed director Spike Lee comes the edge-of-your-seat, action-packed thriller that The Wall Street Journal calls "a heist film that?s right on the money."Similar DVD Movies
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