There goes two hours ten minutes of my life I'll never see again

Rating: 2/10 (25 March 2006)

This week me and a couple of friends went to see the newly released "Inside Man" at my local cinema. They loved it. I on the other hand didn't. Now, I am not the sort of person that writes these revues but the way my friends hated me for not liking it really made me want to voice my opinions. I thought that "Inside Man" sucked frankly and the only reason why I gave it such a high mark was because I think of myself as over critical and any mark I placed would be unfair. At the beginning of the film I was exited as it got into the plot line quite fast and the small monologue from Clive Owen was quite good, but it just went down hill from there. I thought that all the characters were very clichéd, the screaming women screamed too much and the bank robbers were trying too hard to be, well, hard. The story line was nowhere near as complex as it should have been (warning if you still want to see this film, I am about to spoil the ending so don't read the next part) he was hiding behind a wall! What mastermind thought that one up, and personally I would have thought a bank employee of at least a year would have noticed that the storage wall was smaller than before. And another thing, if they moved the storage shelves forward how did they fit them all in again? I mean think about it! And if Clive Owen's character had thought of a excuse to tell the policeman, then the millions of cops wouldn't have turned up and they could have taken more than a hand full of diamonds that, by the way, would only fetch one hundred thousand pounds at most. And yes, I know that wasn't the point of the film as they couldn't be done for anything as the safety deposit box wasn't meant to exist blah, blah, blah. (if you skipped the last bit it's safe to read again) But the thing that annoyed me most about this film was the acting; it was awful. The extras were rubbish they didn't act like hostages at all; they were more like people that were going to be late for work. And finally we come to Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster. Now don't get me wrong, I mean I liked Denzel in "John Q", and "Man on Fire" was great, and I really liked Jodie Foster in "Panic Room" but they were staler than week old bread. First I will start with Denzel who has become type cast as one of those hard but smart, rough, tough, "I grew up on the street", black guys (I mean to cause no offence but if I have I am extremely sorry) and that didn't work. Instead he made the character look like a fool although he was meant to be smart (I'm really sorry if I caused offence again, really I am) and this sort of confuses the story line as I couldn't get why people thought he was so smart (sorry). And then finally there's Jodie (good in "The Silence of the Lambs" although Anthony Hopkins was rubbish) her character was meant to be smart as well as witty and sly. But guess what? That's right, she wasn't. She murdered that character. My summary is, that I would never see this again even if you paid me, but I have seen worse. There goes two hours ten minutes of my life I'll never see again.