Inside Man: ****
I love Spike Lee, but sometimes his movies can
get a little preachy. Sometimes the point overwhelms the story. (Hey, at least
he has a point.)
This never happens
with Inside Man. It's an old-fashioned heist movie. Lee manages the delicate
dance between bank robber Clive Owen and cop Denzel Washington so deftly that we
want them both to succeed. The mystery unravels so carefully that you don't
even know there is a mystery until you're halfway
through.
A lot of the best scenes are
throwaways of New Yorkers being New Yorkers. Bickering about other possible
solutions to a puzzle they already solved. Swapping parking ticket fixes for
translation services. Details.
We're a
full three months into 2006, and this is the first good movie I've seen this
year. (But tomorrow I'm hoping to see Slither.)
Filed Thu - March 30, 2006, 07:50 AM in
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