This Movie S.U.C.K.S.

Rating: 1/10 (1 April 2006)

I don't know who wrote the other comments for this movie but I have a sneaking suspicion they work for the studio that produced the movie. Why do I say that? Because this movie was terrible.
Somebody somewhere wanted to make a New York heist movie, and they got their hands on this weak script. So, as they do with all weak scripts, they threw money at it. They gave it a big budget, a well-known director (Lee) an A-list lead (Denzel) and a few of "thespian" secondary players (Foster, Dafoe and Owen) in hopes of making this "joint" classy.
They failed miserably.
Instead what you get is a jumbled heist movie with a racial commentary. Think Crash meets Die Hard meets the Negotiator.
The dialogue is trite, and the plot really doesn't go anywhere. The actors' performances are as follows:
Denzel is the same character in this movie as he is in 98% of his other movies.
Dafoe is in it for the cash (nothing wrong with that, he's a cool dude).
Foster needed a gig where she wasn't protecting her daughter from kidnappers.
Owen is also in it for the cash (nothing wrong with that, he's a cool dude).
And Christopher Plummer is the exact same guy he played in Syriana.
The music score sucks, and the sub-plot with Denzel and his wife is useless and boring. What do I care about this guy's personal life? If I'm watching a movie like this, I want suspense and possibly some 'splosions, not a love story that goes nowhere.
Then there's the whole Nazi diamond thing they stole from Marathon Man. The antagonists of this film, if you boil it down, are Nazis. Nazis. Seriously, when a New York heist movie that takes place in the present has to rely on Nazis, and not neo-Nazis but the ones from World War II, then something is seriously wrong. It worked in Marathon Man thirty years ago. It doesn't work here.
In addition to all this awfulness, the movie does not want to end. You're sitting there waiting for it to end and it just drags on and on. Watch this movie when it becomes a movie of the week on television a few years from now.