Directed by: Spike Lee
Cast: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
On the same level as Ocean's Eleven (2001) and The Italian Job (2003), Inside Man depicts a one-of-a-kind heist that keeps the audience interested until the end. The film basically jumps right into action, showing the beginnings of a dynamic bank robbery just minutes after the opening credits. Even though Inside Man pushes reality a little bit, it doesn't push enough to make the audience question the believability. Overall it stays true to the world the film creates. Jodie Foster does a good job playing her character Madeline White, except I couldn't figure out her character's profession. I knew she was in a high power position because she had the mayor and everyone else wrapped around her finger, but was she a property investor or a lawyer of some sort or even something else? I just couldn't tell. Fortunately Denzel Washington clearly played Detective Keith Frazier, an entertaining and witty character that remained unperturbed by the robbers: the basic kind of protagonist the audience roots for.
Compared to other movies in this genre of cops and robbers I found it to be a fairly memorable one.