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Rating: 10/10 (15 February 2008)

This movie was so well written...I am blown away at all the hidden subtext in this movie from the Jewish man who worked for the bank to the diamond in the pocket.
They deliberately wrote the scene in the initial robbery sequence where Clive Owen said "Same treatment for you Rabbi" and pushed him down. In the pick up scene when Owen was walking out of the bank, the "Rabbi" was in the getaway car! Unbelievable and you could have missed it if you blinked! The last scene of the movie almost escaped me but at the very end before it faded to black I got it. When Owen walked into Washington on his way out of the bank I didn't think anything of it. Then when Washington's character flashed back to that scene at the end of the movie after discovering a loose diamond in his jacket pocket I got it. Owen dropped the diamond in his pocket deliberately so that he could propose to his girlfriend. Owen & Washington's characters had discussed that situation in the confrontation in the bank earlier in the movie!
Kudos on an amazing screenplay. It takes a lot to impress me and you've done just that!