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Densely plotted and well shot, Inside Man<\/span> echoes every other bank heist movie that has preceeded yet it still manages to be original enough to be fascinating. <\/p>\n

Turning on a brilliant plan by Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) to rob a very specific branch of the Manhattan Trust Bank, this film is full of spot-on performances by masters of their craft. Brought in to handle the hostage situation after the bank branch is secured by a group of robbers who all answer to some variation of the name Steve, Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) is a man with problems of his own. <\/p>\n

Under the cloud of a bust gone bad and $140,000 of missing drug money, his healthy relationship with his younger, police officer girlfriend is being complicated by her petty hood of a younger brother, and by Frazier’s seeming inability to make Detective First-Grade. Even though he’s a man in over his head, Frazier moves confidently through the situations with which he’s faced, even the most unusual one of being told by the Mayor to afford Madeline White (Jodie Foster), a woman who specializes in handling delicate problems for the incredibly wealthy, every courtesy, and in exchange, Frazier will receive his long desired promotion.<\/p>\n

What no one counts on, not Frazier, not Madeline White, not even Manhattan Trust’s Chairman of the Board Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), a man with much to hide, is the absolute perfection of Russell’s plan. The plot of this film turns on a twist that, once revealed, is so simple and so elegant you’ll find yourself wondering why you didn’t see it in the first place, for the clues are all there.<\/p>\n

Good, clean direction by Spike Lee, solid cinematography by Matthew Libatique, and a superb script by Russell Gewirtz (whose previous credits include a couple of episodes of the failed Steven Bochco series Blind Justice<\/span>) make Inside Man<\/span> a wholly satisfying film pitched to adults. 4 out of 5 popcorns.<\/p>\n

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Densely plotted and well shot, Inside Man echoes every other bank heist movie that has preceeded yet it still manages to be original enough to be fascinating. Turning on a brilliant plan by Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) to rob a very specific branch of the Manhattan Trust Bank, this film is full of spot-on performances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-movie-review","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}