Inside Man
It’s good. Just a few thoughts:
- The beginning and ending credits are set to a Bollywood song. Granted, it’s fairly catchy. But still, what the hell?
- One of the characters in the movie shares the same first name as my brother. Probably the first and only time that will ever happen in a Hollywood movie. It was almost as funny as the continuous references to “Gotham” being destroyed in Batman Begins.
- The trailers make this movie seem like a super-serious thriller. At least for the first 1.5 hours, it’s not. It’s a typical Spike Lee “joint”, with incredibly absurd humor interspersed with plot development. Make sure you catch the ridiculous PSP game. Too bad they don’t actually sell it…
- Why isn’t Clive Owen the next James Bond? If it’s true that he turned down the role, then it’s a damn shame.
- I don’t think I realized just how good a director Spike Lee is until I saw this movie. The way he exposes the whole heist is spot-on, and he manages to maintain suspense all the way to the end of the movie. It does lose a bit of steam towards the end, but not much.
Yeah, go watch it.