Loved it!

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2007)

I love the movie...this is a silly sidenote: I think anyone with half a life's experience with any range of cultural backgrounds could see that this all-white crew of awkward, stiff, articulate drama kids with guns wouldn't kill anyone. Four years of a liberal arts college and their conscience wouldn't make it through a murder! I believe this movie is about the fear of guns and violence, not their exhibition. It's about a group of bored, greedy white people desensitized by childhoods not as stimulating as the sci-fi adventures they obsessed over in middle school and after their BAs didn't get them their dream jobs the first or second run-around they took up with a genius, demented Clive Owen to become first-time offenders in a very big way.
Then they got away with it! Because white, bored and well-educated people often do in the silver-screen landscape. But when Clive Owen plays the GTA imitation on young boy hostage's PSP he tells the kid he's going to talk to his father about the video game. Violence is a not a game. Fear and intimidation are.
Love that Spike Lee movies have these dozens of ideas to talk about. Clive Owen's weirdness is too great to avoid in this film. If his robbery crew was a film crew, they'd all be boom mic operators. If they were at a wedding, they'd all be the ring-bearers. If they were on the Titanic, they'd fallen off first. Clive Owen, weird. Rest of the white people: terrible.
Too bad we can't get Sal's Pizza in the real world though, huh?