"One More Time!".........................

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2010)

You know that old Count Basie recording of "April in Paris" where at the end the Count calls "One More Time!" and the band repeats the last section of the Milt Buckner arrangement then it's "One More Once" etc. until even the most avid Basie fan wants to cry "Enough already"? Well,"Inside Man" left me with the exact same feeling. Just when you think it's time to shove your can of "Coke" (T.M.) underneath the seat in front of you and wolf down that last handful of roasted peanuts before making the dash for the Late Bus,what appears to be a perfectly good ending turns out to be not an ending at all and the film drags on for another unnecessary scene,an occurrence that repeats itself ad nauseam until I could feel myself in sympathy with Mort Sahl who famously stood up towards the premiere of "Exodus" and yelled "Otto,let my people go". What is basically the old "Nazi Treasure" plot that I first saw utilised in a Tarzan film at the Saturday Morning Pictures 60 years ago is is given "gritty,urban,edgy"makeover with the usual not -too -subtle Spike Lee racial undercurrent and Pseudo Tarantino plot construction that makes little sense whilst you watch it and even less sense when you think about it afterwards. It is performed with an air of desperation by a cast that clearly want done with it as quickly as possible,Miss J.Foster in particular has rarely seemed so offhand. Look as I might,I was unable to find much to like in it.