Inside Man (DVD)

Director Spike Lee is very well known for such films as Malcolm X and Mo Better Blues. 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 president has brought in a fixer for the hostage situation, as he has something very secret and important in a safe ...

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 only a while back 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. Anyhow back to the film, 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 ...

Inside Man "My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell 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 ...