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Inside Man (Widescreen Edition) "A thriller like no other...." INDEED! Denzel Washington. Clive Owen. Jodie Foster. Spike Lee. Four minds working together to cook up quite the cinematic storm. Zooming on a bit, Denzel and Spike tag team once again for the fourth time in years. The original bad boys are back!
One thing that hooks me on Inside Man, besides my favorite actor and my favortie director by themselves, is the three main characters. In the very beginning, Dalton Russell (Owen), the criminal mastermind, takes us inside not only his cell but also his mind. Clive Owen really went to work on this, managing to bring not only a face but also an idea to man who elects to remain faceless. Detective Keith Frazier (Washington), also takes us inside his own mind, as well as Russell's. Frazier truly deserves to be called a POLICE OFFICER! Not a COP like most of his colleagues! I don't think Frazier would have had his prowess and unique way of looking into and at the situation if Washington didn't have his. Finally, there is the powerbroker, Madeleine White (Foster), a woman who does not hear a few phrase without expecting more to come. She does not leave any stone unturned. Jodie Foster also went to work when it was time. When with Denzel, Foster recognized who she was dealing with on screen, and that Denzel and Clive meant business. So she had to give it everything she had.
The other thing about Inside Man, that hooks me is the cinematography which supports the substance of the narrative. The cinematography provides a first-person point of view that most thrillers tradtionally refuse to provide.
And let's not forget director Spike Lee. The crime thriller was not what he was known for, but he totally, and ingeniously pulled it off. When producer Brian Grazer, chose Lee, he chose a director who really knew (and knows) the city of New York. And not just geographically, and not just as a backdrop for all the action. Lee treated the city as character in itself. Lee also invited us to meet the authorities and the hostages, and the criminals as people, dumb and wise, smart and slow, open-minded and shortsighted.
The DVD itself works perfectly. The picture and sound quality is flawless. If you aren't a fan of thrillers that take an "artsy" approach, than this film will not suit you. This is for those who appreciate art as well as suspense...and they only!
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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."
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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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