Complex but rewarding story

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2006)

It was difficult to figure out the guts of the movie. In a sense, all were against Denzel and the mass won even if he knew there was something amiss. I think at the very end, he must have had some respect for the staged operation since a it would require painstaking practice and planning to pull such a crime off. In the movie, nearly everybody involved, right from the CEO and Jodie Foster (as a liaison) of the bank to some of the hostages. It was a clever plan to confuse all the hostages and to stage executions on video tape. The movie was great. It would be hard to imagine how much that money is needed to influence people in situations of chaos and desperation as the federal police cars, the city mayor, but the story does not detail the planning involved.