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Inside Man Reviews
Inside Man remains one of the best-cast and slickest heist films of the 2000s
Follow your instincts, and don’t forget what makes us human — “money can’t buy love.” Evil deeds stink, game recognises game. The only clean getaway is one you can live with.
A straight-forward but enthralling caper that does right by its characters while offering Lee the wiggle room to poke at a few social issues along the way.
Inside Man is a run-of-the-mill heist film, something that merely fills up time, directed by Spike Lee.
The best of its kind since The Usual Suspects.
The interweaving of backstory and some taut subplots deepen the action, orchestrated with such precision that each scene innately ratchets up the stakes from its previous frame.
Foster's slick performance as "fixer" Madeleine White adds to the intrigue and suspense, along with the supporting characters...
Lee handles the strong cast and Russell Gewirtz's screenplay with precision. This is the director's best work since 1998's He Got Game.
Director Spike Lee's most polished effort in years is a gripping thriller with strong performances.
It appears to be a heist movie, but it's too slow for the genre, and the tension keeps slackening into comedy... There are plenty of plot twists, but the comedy is much better than the tension was ever going to be.
The ending has some plotting issues-much of this perfect execution seems to rest on coincidence and/or the intelligence level of the law types dealing with it-but everything up to it is well-made and entertaining. A fine summer rental.
It doesn't seem to play to his strengths yet it's a perfect crucible for Spike to explore his pet themes of race and class in the lumpy melting pot of New York City and a great set-up for what he does best...
The lack of characterization of the robbers, while true to the structure of the story, makes it seem a bit flat. At the end of the day, it's not really about anything; it's just a bunch of stuff that happens. But it's a bunch of stuff that's fun to watch.
An intelligent, invigoratingly airtight caper and a love letter to New York on crumpled, coffee-stained paper, "Inside Man" is the best kind of Spike Lee joint - one where he doesn't stumble over his sledgehammer before swinging it.
A limp ride that, for all the shove of the camera and the grabby intimations of buried corruption, is no different from a John McTiernan Joint
... remains consistently watchable as a mechanical exercise.
With great performances by Washington, Ejiofor, and Owen, this is a bank robbery thriller that will keep you in your seat.
Since bankrupting his film production company with dreadful movies like "Bamboozled" and "He Hate Me" Spike Lee now works as a Hollywood gun-for-hire creating a blasé and muddy suspense police drama.
Inside Man is the Spike Lee film for people who don't go to see Spike Lee films, and it's also a fun treat for people who see everything the man does.
An enjoyable, polished thriller, ideal for Friday night entertainment.