Inside Man DVD

Advantages: Great story, Great acting
Disadvantages: A few loose ends, quite intricate.

...the building or the hostages inside get shot), blockade the building and make as much noise as humanly possible. Washington is playing the role of Hostage Negotiator Type Person (HNTP as I like to call it). Foster is yet to pop out of the woodwork but I suspect she might be a robber. Who knows. Not me. About 20 minutes in and I'm being kept thoroughly entertained! The Green Goblin guy from Spiderman has just reared his head, and I'm so entertained ...
...to be a typical cops and robber type film! Maybe I shouldn't have been so hasty to judge. That also means that the rest of this review is going to be written AFTER I watch the film. Maybe Come on Foster, Where are ya?? Ok so I was wrong. She's not a robber. She's…well… I'm not sure yet. Give me a minute. Oh well, she's gone again. Lets focus on what's happening now. The robbers have dressed up all their hostages in the same suits as themselves. ... Read review

Advantages: Great story
Disadvantages: Can't think of any yet

...film but it also means inside a man's mind. A very good film and one I'd definitely recommend to anyone. Mine cost me £5 from XtraVision and I'm quite happy with the value. There were no DVD extras. Similar films would be Dog Day Afternoon and Phonebooth but if you didn't like those films (I didn't like Phonebooth ) I wouldn't be put off. Certificate The film is a 15. There is alot of bad langauge and only some violence. Trailer ... Read review

Advantages: Good acting and plot
Disadvantages: The 'ease' of a complicated plot makes it unbelievable

...Here, in the 2006 film Inside Man, he directs a stellar cast in a crime thriller with a twist, a thoughtfully directed film about a bank heist gone wrong. The Plot Dalton Russell has planned the perfect bank heist. Everything works perfectly, until a hostage situation emerges and Detective Frazier is brought in to negotiate with Russell. Yet this is no regular hostage situation. Frazier himself is on the verge of corruption charges, and the bank's ...
...as he has something very secret and important in a safe deposit box in the bank. Ax the fixer starts leaning her influence, and the pressure mounts on both Russell and Frazier, twists in the tale start to emerge, and all is not as it seems! The Cast and Performances This cast is full of big names. Denzel Washington is magnificent in his cacting ability as Detective Frazier, and Clive Owen is sulky and dangerous as Russell. The two work well together ... Read review

Advantages: Great twists and turns
Disadvantages: Watch it twice ?

INSIDE MAN Starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Plummer. Directed by Spike Lee A Universal Picture Production How did I miss this film? Watched it last night and really enjoyed it. Reminded me a bit of 'The Thomas Crown Affair' starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. (If Mr McQueen had done the robbery himself) ? I've often thought that Clive Owen has a similar McQueen magnetism. Stop….Spoilers ...
...I won't go into a long and tedious narrative of the entire plot, so here's the highlights: Film starts with Clive giving us an insight of where the film is going to take us, Then the awesome music starts Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint - Written by A.R. Rahman, Gulzar, Panjabi MC Performed by Sukhwinder Singh, Sapna Awasthi featuring Panjabi MC Clive arrives at the bank he intends to rob, enters and disables the cameras with infer-red spotlights. ... Read review

Advantages: Some nice twists, a great plot and an excellent cast
Disadvantages: Pretty good viewing the first time but it's likely it won't be watch again

...and being in prison..." Inside man is a crime thriller and hostage movie rolled into one. It goes without saying that Inside Man isn't your average hostage movie and not what you'd expect it to be when you first watch it. However, how memorable it is, is another question. Inside Man packs an all-star cast, staring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer and Willem Dafoe. As ever they all give great performances, especially ...
...bad value for money when you consider you can get it for around 5 pound. Runtime: 129 mins If you liked this film then you should enjoy: 'The Usual Suspects' Inside Man available from: HMV - £4.99 Inside Man & Clockers: Play.com - £5.99 ... Read review

Advantages: A well written thriller that keeps you guessing
Disadvantages: The music and the casting don't look great in parts

...I've seen a couple of films recently which provoked entirely different reactions in me, largely due to the expectations I had of them. I went into one hoping for something and it let me down badly. I went into "Inside Man", knowing very little about it and not really knowing what to expect and had a great time. Dalton Russell has planned what he feels to be the perfect bank robbery. All that he needs to do is to carry it out and get away with it. That's going to be easier said than done, as Detective Keith Frazier is determined to stop him getting away with it, especially as he has a large number of hostages in the bank with him. Detective Frazier is keen to get the hostages out in one piece, whilst ensuring that the robbers come out into custody and the contents of the bank don't come out at all. In the mean time, the President... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: slick plot, great acting, humor, entertaining, worth the money
Disadvantages: plenty of swearing

.... It is a rare talent to be able to make a sentence funny relying only on one's voice, but Owen carries it off with style. Washington's personality in the film is more lighthearted, but there is no mistaking the seriousness that underlies his humor - to take this man for a fool would be a tremendous risk (as the icy, deliciously bitchy, Madeline White, played by Jodie Foster, discovers). Willem Dafoe turns in a solid but not necessarily memorable performance as Captain John Darius, and Christopher Plummer plays the aged and tormented banker Arthur Case to perfection - a man haunted by his past yet simultaneously unapologetic for what he has to do to keep that past under wraps. Finally, moral messages aside, the movie would not be a Spike Lee movie if it lacked the insightful social commentary he is known for. Simply by his casting choices... Read review

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Advantages: Good Cast, Director and Story
Disadvantages: Some average performances

...On paper this film could have turned out to be an absolute classic with Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Defoe and Spike Lee directing this had all the ingredients to be my film of the year. In actual fact it came pretty close, beaten only by the superb M.i:3 and SuperMan Returns into third place. Before watching the film I was dreading Clive Owen turning this film from brilliance to boring after his less than convincing performances in Sin City and King Arthur but in his leading role as Dalton Russell, creator of the most perfect bank robbery ever, he convinces as an intelligent but potentially violent master criminal. True to form Denzel Washington appears in his fourth film with Spike Lee directing as hostage negotiator Keith Frazier, his insistence on handling the robbery/ransom himself... Read review

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