Quite Enjoyable

Rating: 9/10 (22 November 2006)

This is an extremely well-crafted, suspenseful, and surprising motion picture.
I could have done without the repeated F-bombs, but, admittedly, they were germane to the situation.
On the other hand, I think that the premise was most ingenious. I was rather shocked, but pleasantly surprised, when I saw to what the title truly referred.
The look of the film was realistic, yet pleasingly short of "gritty."
And, I really loved the Bollywood music in the opening credits! I saw this film in a theater that had just revamped (i.e., pumped up) its sound system, and the music was intoxicating! So energetic and truly stunning!
I have not always been a Spike Lee fan -- but I am now, for this film is a REAL masterpiece in his body of work, in that he is not trying to be purposefully controversial, but, rather, in that he shows his consummate film-making skills in a "conventional" genre.
I think this is one of the great "heist" movies yet made.