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'Inside Man': Hollywood with street cred
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

Big-Hollywood-movie handsome and sprinkled with big Hollywood names, "Inside Man" nonetheless calls itself "a Spike Lee Joint." Justifiably, as it turns out. The setup for Lee's new movie is bank-heist basic. Clive Owen plays a cool-headed criminal mastermind along the lines of Alan Rickman in "Die Hard." He and a small band of gunmen take over a Wall Street bank and seize about 50 hostages, whom they force to don the same coveralls and white masks they're wearing. Thus, it quickly becomes impossible to tell the hostages from the hostage-takers. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Tough New York detective Keith Frazier matches wits with a clever bank robber as a dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds. Unexpectedly, a power broker with a hidden agenda emerges to inject even more instability into an already volatile situation.

FILM FACTS ...

Universal Pictures

'Inside Man'

Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Plummer, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Run time: 129 minutes
Release date: March 24, 2006
Rating: R for language and some violent images.
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On the web
Official movie site
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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"(Denzel) Washington hasn't been this loosey-goosey, this relaxed and free-flowing in some time."