Denzel Washington and Clive Owen deliver first-rate performances in director Spike Lee’s inside Man, a clever, engaging film that’s considerably better than the average heist movie.
Inside Manopens with Dalton Russell staring into the camera explaining who he is, what he’s doing, and why he’s doing it. He dangles the question of where he is over our heads, leaving the audience with something to think about as the story unfolds.
From that opening we leap into the action as armed robbers dressed in painting gear take over a bank and hold everyone inside, all 40 or 50 people including the bank employees, hostage. The hostages are forced to strip and given matching painters outfits, masks and sunglasses to wear. It’s a very smart move and clearly shows how much planning went into the heist. It also serves to show the intelligence of the group’s leader.
New York City’s finest spring into action, blocking off streets, placing snipers on nearby roofs and calling into play their hostage negotiators.
In this case it’s a green behind the ears detective named Keith Frazier (Denzel) and his partner Detective Bill Mitchell (Chiwetel Ejiofor).
Frazier’s itching for a high profile case and a promotion in rank, but is facing an internal investigation for theft. Frazier’s a seasoned police officer but, unless I’m interpreting it wrong, hasn’t actually been in the lead role as a negotiator on many cases. How a guy who apparently doesn’t have many hostage negotiations under his belt could possibly expect to receive a raise in rank isn’t really explained and is one of the film’s more confusing plot holes.
Russell and Frazier begin the standard well-choreographed dance between negotiator and bank robber until it dawns on Frazier there’s nothing normal about this bank robbery. In a strange little twist, Madeline White (Jodie Foster), a mysterious power broker, inserts herself into the situation with offers to expedite a conclusion to the robbery. Madeline was hired by the bank’s founder and CEO (Christopher Plummer) to intercede on his behalf and to do whatever it takes to get the armed men to leave. White’s appearance and offer to help makes Frazier absolutely certain his intuition is correct. Frazier is now sure stealing the contents of the bank’s safe isn’t the robbers’ primary objective.
Altough our media film isnt a great hesit robbery, the films incoparated are that of suspense and drama! These themes are seen through the direct dominant manner in our actors and the sound of our film which sets the tone of the production straight from the start. I found that inside man could relate to our media film if we continued to make the enigma last all way throughout the film this was done through the mise en scene of he alleyway and the cinematorgraphy the establishing shots adding a great emphasis to our story.
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