Inside Disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (9 April 2007)

I am a big Spike Lee fan, and I will be the first to tell you to skip this movie. From the moment it started, I was just totally not drawn into the plot at all--I couldn't even really figure out what the plot was. The actors in the movie are great, but they were all wasted in their roles--Willem Dafoe was wasted as a cop and Jodie Foster was certainly wasted in her tiny little role. Denzel Washington could not even pull off his character, whatever it was supposed to be, the hat-wearing, cool as a cucumber detective. There were a few references to Denzel's character's girlfriend and the issue of whether or not he would get married again, but I didn't care, because there was no real character development in this movie. The plot was incomprehensible and boring. It was really a self-indulgent movie that went absolutely nowhere. I am not even really sure why I bothered to watch until the very end--I think I kept holding out hope that there would be some big revelation at the end or some justification for watching/making the movie, but there never was. Let me also say that the actual plot of why the bank robbery occurred was really stupid and disappointing. If you want to see a good Spike Lee joint, try "Do the Right Thing" or "She's Gotta Have it".