Inside Man
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster
Details: US, 115mins, 15s.
Interesting re-working of the heist movie, Inside Man keeps three steps ahead of a guessing audience until that final twist. Like Sidney Lumet in Dog Day Afternoon (a movie referred to here), director Spike Lee wastes no time in cutting to the chase and piles clever twists on top of new ideas: inter-cutting the heist with the interviews Washington and his partner Chiwetel Ejiofor conduct with the hostages after the robbery goes down. The performances are top notch too; Washington's normally too-cool-for-school delivery usually grates but he's on form here, Foster is great and Owen shows Hugo Weaving's V that you can still act even though you are perpetually hidden in mask for the duration of a film. Where it falls down is the final act where it is drawn out far too long as Lee tries to tie up too many loose ends. That said, Inside Man is still a superior heist movie and welcome addition to the genre.
Review by Gavin Burke
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