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: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
Producer: Brian Grazer
Producer: Daniel M. Rosenberg
Producer: Jon Kilik
Producer: Jonathan Filley
Producer: Karen Kehela
Producer: Kim Roth
Writer: Russell Gewirtz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Albanian (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, 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
DVD Reviews of Inside Man (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Clive Owen is a bad moe-foe...
Summary: 5 Stars
Inside Man, directed by Legend Spike Lee, stars Clive Owen & Denzel Washington...
For the umpteenth time, Denzel plays a calm and collected Bad-@$$ who is coming off a bad case at a check cashing store and he is being looked at for some missing money...
Clive Owen plays the "Bad Guy" that you want to win...His gang takes a bunch of people in a bank hostage in what appears to be a holdup...
Jodi Foster & Christopher Plummer (Syriana-Recommended) make a surprise appearance as the banks Chairman and a women who "gets things done"...
What is at stake? What is the Bank Gang really after?
The title is funny really because "Inside Man" is a term that makes me think that someone who works at the bank is in on it but Jodi Foster's character is the only "Inside Man" as the term was intended...
This is a great movie and should be in everyone's collection. As a Bank Job movie, I rate it a definite top 20.
DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
The movie runs a little bit too long, has no real purpose for Jodie Foster, and tries to pass off Christopher Plummer's character as someone who had influence during the Holocaust (assuming he was 35 in 1945, which is still a bit young to be running a bank, that makes him 96 in 2006), but avoids many of the pratfalls of similar heist movies and emerges as a watchable thriller.
DVD Review: Geat Crime Caper
Summary: 5 Stars
This begins with a chilling statement of intent by the leading man, and from then on it is a marvel of carefully planned and flawlessly executed bank robbery.
The trick is that although there are hang on the edge of your seat moments this gang has seemed to have foreseen and planned for everything. This is a great movie and you will not regret purchasing it. My companion and I watched it twice in two days just to get the most enjoyment out of it. It wears well!
DVD Review: It's lacking some, but it makes up for it elsewhere...
Summary: 4 Stars
This film feels off when you compare it to the other films given to us by Spike Lee. I'm not saying that is a bad thing (we all know that I am not the biggest Spike Lee fan) but the fact that it doesn't truly feel like a Spike Lee film is significant. Sure, Lee inserts his views on race relations when he has the chance (please get off it for once) but the brisk pace and overall plot development feel like something far removed from director Spike Lee. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing to the viewer is entirely up to that individual.
Personally I found the pacing a welcomed change. It was easier to follow and more engaging than some of Lee's more preachy endeavors, and while it lacks the depth and pristine command that Lee exhibited in `25th Hour' it manages to keep my interest throughout.
I was entertained.
At the films open we are introduced to Dalton Russell. Pay close attention for he chooses his words carefully. He basically tells you all the films secrets in the opening scene, but you won't get it, at least not yet. He is going to rob a bank. Next thing you know the bank is sealed and Dalton and his accomplices take everyone hostage, making them don jumpsuits and stripping them of their cell phones and keys. Outside the bank Detective Keith Frazier (in search of a promotion) takes on the task of negotiating the safety of the hostages with Dalton, but there is no outsmarting that man who has no doubt thought this through.
Sadly, it feels at times like the screenwriter didn't do the same. There are plot holes that stick out like sore thumbs, especially as the plot twists start revealing themselves. The side plot involving Arthur Case (the bank owner) and the `fixer' he hires is a tad convoluted and needed a little tweaking. Parts of the execution regarding Dalton's escape are also a bit of a stretch, but it's nothing that takes away from the enjoyment of the film.
Just don't think about it too hard.
The performances are a delight here though. Clive Owen is a very effective actor who has consistently presented himself wonderfully on screen. He's able to engage the audience from the moment he opens his mouth (that voice) but he also has the ability to sustain our attention with the light in his eyes. Denzel Washington was a nice surprise here as well. He was able to keep his charm controlled as apposed to allowing it to run wild as he often does. This is probably one of his better performances, for he found the proper balance in his style of acting. Christopher Plummer does what he can with his character, and he does it very well; but he is upstaged (as is everyone) by Jodie Foster. Seriously, what in the world has she been doing? Where was this amazing and commanding force back when she was winning Oscars for performances that were beneath her obviously? I mean what she does here is leagues ahead of a lot of her more acclaimed performances.
LOVED IT!!!
In the end `Inside Man' is a very interesting and enjoyable heist film. It is not as smart as it appears to be, nor as intelligent as it wants to be, but it is as fun as it claims to be so check it out. The performances and the quick paced action will keep you glued even if the films preposterousness wages war on you later on. Just turn your mind off for a few hours and enjoy a good popcorn flick.
DVD Review: Almost perfect.
Summary: 5 Stars
Besides the great story, the acting, the cinematography then there is the music.
I can watch this movie over and over.
I am just waiting on the BlueRay version to buy it.
This is Hollywood at it's best.
You think they could make more like these more often.
Thank you.
Description 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."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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