Ho Hum

Rating: 4/10 (11 April 2006)

Why is this movie getting such rave views? Has the average movie become so crappy that when a mediocre movie is released, it becomes critically acclaimed? Inside Man plods along telling its unexciting and obvious heist tale. I kept looking for twists that never materialized. Why did the old lady make a big fuss about having to remove her clothes? Was she really a man? Did she have a horrible scar? Nope. She just didn't want to take off her clothes? Why was one of the hostages dragged to another room and beaten up behind closed doors? Was he a secret collaborator? Nope, the robbers just wanted to drag him to another room before stomping him?
And making an 80+ year old Nazi the bad guy? How cowardly! Don't you think they could have come up with an edgier, more up-to-date villain? And just what did Jodie Foster's character deliver at the end besides a promotion for the cop? What a disappointment!