A drama filled, thrill-riding, crime filled movie Inside Man is directed by Spike Lee in 2006 and written by Russell Gewirtz. The only two actors in the movie that I recognized are Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster. It’s a backwards-filmed plot twisting two hour and nine minute movie. You know the outcome of the movie in the very first scene. The fact Russell was able to pull off a movie like this amazes me, how it just starts off with the outcome yet still keeps the viewers around to watch the movie beginning to end. But the directing and writing is so good, that you stick with it to see how they come to the final outcome it came to. Some parts are really confusing to me but the majority of the movie made sense. The basic outline of Inside Man is a robbery that isn’t a robbery but later is a robbery, confusing I know, but that’s what keeps you on the edge of your seat. There are so many different characters in the movie, so many different personalities that the writers came up with it really makes you think someone is really going to be killed just because they can’t keep their mouth shut. From the “big chested girl”, to the kid to thinks he’s a hard*ss and nothing scares him, to the guy who is scared sh*tless, and then they just had to throw in the American but Iraqi Arab looking male who got treated horribly by the police just because they thought he was a terrorist, yet all he cared about was his turban when the police took it away from him.

On IMDB the movie got a 7.7 out of 10 star rating. I’d give it about an 8 out of 10. There are a handful of camera angels and camera movements that are just about enough to send me to the bathroom throwing up. I’m not a fan of movies where the camera is right in the middle of the action. I like to be able to see what is going on from a step back distance. The acting was good, the plot was ingenious and the ending was just jaw dropping. Seeing a robbery done so brilliantly it makes you wonder why someone hasn’t attempted this in real life. It is just a movie yes, but maybe the myth busters should test it out and see how possible it actually is, because if it were actually possible it would only make this movie that much better. The way the writers thought of the way to use the hostages the way they did and the way the robbers robbed the bank without it looking like they took a single penny was so clever.

This movie is for the people who enjoy criminal movies, dramas, thrillers, and plot twists. It is rated R for language and some violent scenes. Which I would agree with, so young high schoolers and grade schoolers probably shouldn’t watch this movie. But anyone who is a Denzel Washington fan would enjoy this movie, and plus it is a “younger” Denzel, which makes it interesting to watch and see how far he has come in his career. And who doesn’t want to watch a Denzel Washington thriller anyways?!