excellent, complex piece of great art

Rating: 9/10 (8 November 2008)

This movie has one of the best thriller plots that I have ever seen. Everything links together almost perfectly at the end. The seemingly disjointed, slow-moving plot is all part of the artistic excellence of the movie. "Inside Man" is intentionally bizarre, progressively confusing the viewers more and more until the final fifteen minutes in which all of the peculiarities are wrapped up into one cohesive (and humorous) whole. This movie is for the intelligent viewer, who is willing to pay attention to every detail. Even the title gives away a major part of the plot, but what precisely that part is remains unknown until the very end of the movie.
The one detail that could have been better explained is the exact significance of that ring to those people, and what leaving it where the cops would find it achieved, but even that is reasonably obvious.