solid David Mamet-like sensational drama

Rating: 7/10 (1 April 2006)

Great dialogs, juicy and real characters, unlearn script, interlacing scenes from the robbery in progress and the scenes from police auditions, which have place after that, fastened moreover the buckle of the statement of 'Man of Plan', slowly, step by step exposing the mechanism of the perfect crime. We have here also discreet humor and careful observation of the post-WTC society. Clive Owen is charismatic enough to chain attention of the viewer EVEN in mask and sunglasses on his face. Since I can't remember I haven't seen such characters, which are in the same time arousing such ambivalent feelings. This unequivocal not only brings closer them to the flash and bone people but makes, that we are trying setting up ourselves in similar situations. This feeling intensifies the fact, that motivations, purposely hidden by the authors of the movie, stay unclear for a long time, which increases concern of the viewer.