Not your std Bank Robbery

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2006)

Spike Lee peppers a standard master-mind bank robbery story with his socially-conscious director's eye - and the result is well worth seeing. The camera is a bit more focused on creating atmosphere than just shoving the action in your face, and characters are not what you would expect from a std production. Let's just mention black detective K.Frazier(D.Washington), with a dirty mouth and masterfully bordering on caricature (but since it is a black director shooting this, nobody will complain about political correctness!). Passing but clever and humorous social commentary on America's preconceptions works well with the action. Finally, would you nowadays expect to hear in a big-time movie somebody calling Jodie Foster a (excuse my language, but it is heard loud and clear on screen) "magnificent c***"?