Not Your Average Heist Film...

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2006)

A great movie should be like a great kiss: leaving you goosebumps and wanting more. "Inside Man" is that great kiss.
It takes a premise as old as celluloid; a bank heist, and toys around with it and even at times laughs at itself. The writing is taut, the acting and direction is supreme. Spike Lee has achieved a rare thing: a commercial action movie that ask questions and makes the audience think.
Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer and Jodie Foster are sensational as to be expected, but the other various actors in the role as hostages and robbers alike are just as wonderful.
If I had to voice one complaint it would be that the movie goes on 15 minutes longer than it needed to.