Spike Lee does it again

Rating: 8/10 (22 March 2006)

From the start the public gets a serious hint (a bloke in a cell) that it will end all wrong. The only question remains...how...Then the story starts.. It is shown how a group of people infiltrates a bank and hostages everyone(story well known and too much movies about that...)Soo what about this movie makes it so special? First of all Danzel Washington does a great job. He represents the maybe unexperienced, but clever guy of the corps(like in every bank-robbery movie there is only one of that kind). Second Jodie Foster gives the movie a mysterious - I know people with power that can hurt you real bad - touch . She plays kind of a problem solver that people (only very rich ones) can hire to solve their dirty little problems. This time she works for the founder of the bank. Her mission is to get the content of a safe before the bank robbers get their fingers on it...Clive Owen is without doubt the most brilliant actor of the movie. He first represents the evil...but after some while he starts to show his human side, a metamorphose that he performed extremely well.
Although Gewirtz managed to give the story an unexpected swing, a big part of the story can be predicted from the start. Sometimes things are just too obvious. The end of the hostage taking is so predictable that you can go to the toilet for fifteen minutes and after that things will be just like you predicted. Only one little detail gives the movie the descent end that it deserves.