The Most Complicated Robbery Ever Seen

Rating: 9/10 (18 September 2006)

*Inside SPOILERS*
His name is Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), and listen carefully, because he chooses his word with care and never says the same thing twice.
He's robbing a bank. This explains the 'when' too.
The 'why' is obvious.
But the 'how'? Like The Bard said, 'Therein Lay The Issue'.
Or not? Detective Keith Frazier finds himself into one hell of a maze because of Dalton; a maze filled with the bank founder (Christopher Plummer)'s unspeakable secrets and with Maddie White (Jodie Foster), a woman with a peculiar choice of surname for what she is hired to protect...
Spike Lee has created an instant classic of the bank robbery genre; everybody is in part, the script is really tight while having more twists and turns than a corkscrew (and some nods to landmark movies like Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico), music, cinematography... probably the most inventive - and hard to guess - of the genre.
Inside Man: 9/10.