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
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.
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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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"(Denzel) Washington hasn't been this loosey-goosey, this relaxed and free-flowing in some time."
Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"... a thriller for viewers who prefer battles of brainpower to battles of firepower."
The Palm Beach Post: A-
"...tense and suspenseful throughout."
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