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Mood:
- CleverSuspensefulMind BendingCaptivatingTense
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Plot:
- HostagesMaster CriminalMysterious CharacterPolice DetectiveManipulationsMind GameHeistConfined more...
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Genres:
- CrimeThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- New YorkUSABank
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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- All Star CastTwists and Turns
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- SeriousRealistic
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- ProfanityViolent Content
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Inside Man, 2006
English, Albanian
USA
Profile of Inside Man
Inside Man can be described as mind bending, clever, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around a mysterious character, hostages, and a master criminal. The main genres are thriller and crime. In terms of style, Inside Man features an all-star cast and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a bank. Inside Man is located in New York. It takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that Inside Man involves profanity and violent content.
Summary of Inside Man
His time as a director may have seen Spike Lee gently creep away from the controversial material that made his name, but he hasn't lost his eye for creating an entertaining spectacle; Inside Man is a deliriously constructed crime caper designed to keep audiences guessing right up until the final moments. The plot, written by Russell Gewirtz, works from a devilishly simple premise and spins off on a number of interesting and creative tangents. Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) and his partner Bill Mitchell (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are sent to deal with a hostage situation at a bank in lower Manhattan. Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) is a masked man holding a number of people hostage in the bank while its chairman, Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), worries about a secret document he has hidden in a safety deposit box in the vaults. Madeline White (Jodie Foster) is a sassy power broker who Case hires to enter the melee in order to get his mysterious object out of the box and out of the bank.
As Gewirtz gradually confounds viewers' expectations by threading neat twists and turns into the plot, Lee briefly--perhaps too briefly for hardened Spike fans--returns to the racial themes he overtly tackled in his earlier work. The director uses a number of visual tricks to keep the action humming, such as spectacular overhead shots and grainy, darkly hued posthumous interview clips with the hostages, but Inside Man is essentially a fun popcorn movie executed with an intelligence usually lacking in the genre. While many of the themes--cops are racist, people in power are corrupt, the innocent are persecuted--may be hackneyed, it's testament to Lee's stature as a filmmaker that he manages to pull an engrossing and enjoyable romp from such ostensibly standard subject matter.
Details
| Language: | English, Albanian |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 24 March 2006 |
| Runtime: | 129 min |
Cast and Crew
as Dalton Russell
as Detective Keith Frazier
as Madeleine White
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Critics Reviews
USA Today
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- by: Claudia Puig
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Scott Tobias
Users Reviews
- 18.September.2011
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- by: Lance
- Lance rated this movie7/10Good
- 19.September.2010
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- by: kcflynn1
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