Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Russell Gewirtz

Keywords: Crime

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Willem Dafoe	Actor	22-Jul-1955		Last Temptation of Christ
Chiwetel Ejiofor	Actor	10-Jul-1974		Dirty Pretty Things
Jodie Foster	Actor	19-Nov-1962		Taxi Driver
Clive Owen	Actor	3-Oct-1964		The Bourne Identity assassin
Christopher Plummer	Actor	13-Dec-1929		A Beautiful Mind, The Insider
Denzel Washington	Actor	28-Dec-1954		He got game

REVIEWS

Review by anonymous (posted on 11-Jan-2007)

Used to be, a Spike Lee joint was a political and social statement from opening titles to final MPAA tag. Whether or not you agreed with Lee's politics, you had to admire his moxie and his ability to make a film around his beliefs. INSIDE MAN is not such a film. Oh, the political and social jabs are there...but they're blunt and useless. Even worse, they're pointless. Someone forgot to tell Mr. Lee that he was making a silly, action-less, lustreless bank heist film and not, well, any of his other films. INSIDE MAN plays like a particularly cheesy episode of an old 70s TV cop drama, complete with overly dramatic (and bombastic) 70s TV cop drama score. Interesting characters are introduced, developed a little, and cast aside in the frenzied effort to make this uninteresting caper something that it's not: a commentary on conscience, morality, and business ethics. Even the more than occasional accusation that the NYPD, in this post-9/11 world, hate anyone with a turban is never explored beyond the same old perjorative. Ultimately, the film ends and the viewer is forced to pronounce it as the dirtiest of all words to describe a Spike Lee joint: Silly. (D+)

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