Well Done , , , but . . .

Rating: 8/10 (26 March 2006)

Inside Man was well done but left some unanswered questions. Other than the identities of the robbers, we still really know little about them at the end. If we had more than a cursory sense of who these people were and what motivated them to do what they did, I would have rated the movie higher. Other than that, Denzell was Denzell . . . which is always great, as was Jodie Foster. The kid who played the bank guard's son (whose name I didn't catch at the end) was good too. Plus, the movie flowed. I did not even realize that it was over 2 hours long until I left the theater. It never seemed to bog down, except maybe a little at the end when Denzell was putting everything together. It was different from the movies I am used to seeing from Spike Lee. I hope he does more like this one.