A Counter Twisting Movie

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2019)

9 April 2006. Like The Village, The Inside Man uses the 180 degree twist and to pretty good effect. This mystery thriller built up slowly, perhaps too slowly for some, in its convoluted plot about a bank heist. Strangely this good-feeling movie manages to reveal all in one of the "longest explanations" of any movie and short changes the screen time of Jodie Foster creating some imbalance in the overall presentation of the movie. Yet this is a tight, more cerebral mystery movie, that doesn't quit have the same intense bite of The Crying Game or the Usual Suspects. Yet it does have more of a sympathetic and uplifting message, something well received in these more fearful and uncertain times. Seven out of Ten Stars.