Inside Man [Blu-ray]
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	Brand	Universal Studios
	Type	Blu-ray
	Audience Rating	R (Restricted)
	Release Date	2009-06-02
	Actor	Willem Dafoe; Clive Owen; Christopher Plummer; Denzel Washington; Jodie Foster;
	Director	Spike Lee;
	Length	129 minutes
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Description
Academy Prize® winner† Denzel Washington, Academy Prize® nominee†† Clive Owen and Academy Prize® winnerº Jodie Foster star in this intense and explosive crime thriller. The ideal bank robbery shortly spirals into an unstable and deadly strategy of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind (Owen), a determined detective (Washington), and a power broker together with a concealed agenda (Foster). As the minutes tick by and the situation becomes increasingly tense, one wrong move could indicate disaster for any one of them. From acclaimed director Spike Lee comes the edge-of-your-seat, action-packed thriller The Wall Street Journal calls “a heist film this’s right on the money.”
Spike Lee scored his biggest hit to date together with Inside Man, an unconventional thriller together with fascinating details in the margins of its convoluted plot. The screenplay (by first-timer Russell Gerwitz) could've used a few extra rewrites; it moves at a brisk pace but in hindsight a lot of it doesn't do sense. This makes Inside Man extra fun to watch than to believe concerning afterwards (when you discover plot holes big enough to drive a truck throughout), but it's curiously involving, particularly as NYPD Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) struggles to outsmart a high-stakes bank robber (Clive Owen) who, along together 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. Together with the benefit of his much stellar cast to date (counting Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe and Chiwetel Ejiofor), Lee seems extra interested in character details than well-crafted suspense, but this doesn't stop Inside Man from being engrossing, subtly amusing, and quirky enough to qualify as a welcomed break from the formulaic thrillers this are Hollywood's bread and butter.--Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Inside Man a Bust?   2010-06-24
By Anjelica M. Darby (Puyallup,WA USA)
Look I like Denzel Washington and will watch any of his movies any time of day, but INSIDE MAN is another story. I love the bank robber dramas, especially when that robber is smart and witty. Clive Owen does a good job acting as this intelligent bank robber. The movie was a little slow to me and used the F - word way to much. However, the movie had its moments; I kept wondering how is this guy (Owen) going to escape this bank when there are like a million cops outside? Actually, the way he did it was pretty awesome. The ending was good but it did tick me off a little bit! You will just have to watch to find out.
Witty Thriller   2010-05-08
By Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
Inside Man is a Spike Lee directed "Joint" starring academy award winners Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster as well as academy award nominee Christopher Plummer. This is a story of a successful bankrobbery by a wiley criminal (Clive Owen) and a New York Police negotiator, Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington). The robbers are always one move ahead of the Police Department and keep control of the situation. Not only have they taken over the entire bank, they have about 30 hostages to bargain with. It is a tense situation, and the robbers have the power. During the negotiations the bank chair (Christopher Plummer) brings in Madeline White (Jodie Foster), a tough, cold, yet pleasant power broker. He needs her discretion to get something out of his safety deposit box to save his reputation. She has connections with the Mayor and asks him for access. He owes her a favor so she is allowed to meet with the robbers in person to present a "deal". After she leaves, Detective Frazier also talks to the head of the heist and threatens him. Before Frazier leaves the robber says "I will walk out of here". As Detective Frazier continues negotiations there are flashbacks of hostage interviews (so we know they are saved at the end) and witty scenes where the robbers are ordering pizza for hungry hostages. Overall the movie is an energetic, witty, enjoyable thriller that weaves throughout Spike Lee's familiar touching on race, power and class issues.
Inside Man 2   2010-05-07
By Jeanne Scott (Seattle, Washington)
This was such a success first time around, they are in the process of shooting another one. Fun story!
great movie   2010-01-22
By Alfredo Galang
i really like this movie and it is pretty good on blu ray at a very price
Inside Man -- Ingenious!   2010-01-08
By John C. Graves (Winnetka, CA USA)
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!