INSIDE MAN (2006)

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Positive Experience/Entertaining? It was certainly entertaining, but once you go deeper than the surface, you realize that this film is all glitz and no guts.


Technically any good? The acting was generally solid (though Jodie Foster's choices were strong but boring--aka she was an almost over-the-top, predictable mean person rather than a real character who happened to be unlikable). The film is shot beautifully--the music is good, but there's too much of it. The most sad thing here, however, is the script. Spike Lee is a very good filmmaker so he makes you forget how nonsensical the script is. Sure, the film seems to hold together until you start thinking about how NOT perfect this supposedly perfect crime is. The fact of the matter is that the basic premise of the film falls apart the moment you begin to examine it.

Also, don't expect any positive female characters in this film. You're either an obedient sex pot, a bitch or a bland background character, if you're a woman in this film.


How did it leave me feeling? Very "meh." It was clearly trying to do some some sort of modern film noir, but it was just too complicated and messy to work as a noir (especially since it doesn't really work as anything else--of course, that doesn't stop it from being entertaining on a basic level).


Final Rating? DNS - Do Not See. It was a nice first attempt for Spike Lee to do a non-racially motivated/charged film, but with a better script, I think Lee's capable of a much better movie. And ditch the "Spike Cam" (or as I like to call it now: "Segway Cam") it just knocks you right out of the damn movie--like a sledge hammer it knocks you out of the movie.

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