Inside Man
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Directed by Spike Lee, written by Russell Gewirtz and produced by Academy Award® winner Brian Grazer, "Inside Man" is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen), in a tense hostage drama. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Genre: Crime, Drama
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release date: 6 April 2006
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It's a slick heist thriller, which doesn't conform to the notions of how a heist movie should be. It's the feel good factor at the end of the movie that makes this movie satisfying. This is perhaps the most accessible, and commercial of all Spike Lee Joint films. I'd watch it again, for its engaging politicking story, and for that opening credit sequence.
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The opening was great but the trip to the final revelation and the additional elements beside the monetary heist felt rather sluggish and I swear that there was someone snoring in the cinema during the middle portion of the movie. The final revelation was interesting but it won’t be an instant classic like “Usual Suspects”.
Overall "Inside man" was a satisfactory Heist movie, 3.5 out of 5 stars movie for me.
Sidenote: I caught this movie at Causeway and it was badly censored! All the F word, A word and B word and other words that I didn't catch were MUTED away! Bloody Hell! It was like drowning the characters from showing their expression. For a moment it felt like the “Usual Suspects” again but this is worse, the censorship happened through out the movie. I am not one who uses vulgarities but to have actor’s lines being censored every now and then just pissed me off. I almost wanted to fill in the blank for them.
When did movies shown in Singapore Cinema have their vulgarities censored?? If I have known about it earlier, I wouldn't have watched it in Cinema and wait for other sources to watch it instead. -
it was a pretty good movie. take your gf to watch with you
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Singapore audiences had a bad taste in the mouth watching this movie in the cinemas because of muted dialogue. So I guess I have to d/l it.
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why must watch with gf?Originally posted by coffeeortea:it was a pretty good movie. take your gf to watch with you -
wah lau.. this show is damn good!!!!!! watched it just now.. and yah, the dialogue.. wah lau... can compare with ice age
but the plot is sooooo cool...the perfect bank robbery sia!! but the ending abit ajar leh...got feeling there will be a sequel...
actually, jodie foster's character got wat significance actually? negotiate to make it hush2? -
Hollywood grooves to Chhaiyan Chhaiya, yet again
Indo-Asian News Service
Los Angeles, April 3, 2006
AR Rahman's chartbuster Chhaiyan Chhaiyan makes a surprise appearance in filmmaker Spike Lee's first Hollywood-backed film Inside Man.
AR Rahman's chartbuster Chhaiyan Chhaiyan makes a surprise appearance in filmmaker Spike Lee's first Hollywood-backed film Inside Man.
The song is used in the background at the opening of the heist thriller starring Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington and Clive Owen. It is played again at the conclusion of the movie, which has drawn strong critical notice.
Lee, who has distinguished himself as a powerful independent filmmaker in the past 20 years, is for the first time directing a typical Hollywood production made by Universal Studios.
Digvijay Singh, a Los Angeles-based Indian filmmaker who watched the movie during a recent preview, while praising the film struck a bit of a jarring note about the Rahman number.
"The song does not really fit the film's mood although the film itself works very well," Singh Said.
AR Rahman's chartbuster Chhaiyan Chhaiyan makes a surprise appearance in filmmaker Spike Lee's first Hollywood-backed film Inside Man.
Nevertheless, the Rahman composition written by veteran Gulzar has captured the imagination of mainstream American film watchers. At a production office here, an executive who saw the film, returned to his office and asked his Indian American colleague to get her a CD of the song right away.
"Acclaimed actors Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster come together to explore the lure of power, the ugliness of greed and the mystery of a perfect robbery in a combustible new crime drama," according to the movie's site.
A senior journalist with The Wall Street Journal based in Washington who saw the film said he was amazed at the rising influence of Indian movies. He specifically mentioned the Rahman song from Inside Man as an example.