A well made unintended parody on the genre

Rating: 7/10 (16 March 2006)

I went to a sneak preview of Inside Man the other day. I'm no fan of Denzel Washington to say it mildly, but I enjoyed this movie very much. I felt it was a brilliant parody on the genre of hostage movies and Washingtons career in general. Unfortunately, this probably wasn't the intention of Washington nor that of Spike Lee. There's a bunch of stupid jokes in this movie which made me feel like I was watching a comedy and the ending was so corny that it had to be intentional. My vote of seven is because I enjoyed the movie very much for what it was. The fact remains that I was meant as a serious hostage movie and it fails miserably at that.
On another note, was the director drunk when he picked the music for the opening and ending scenes?