Inside Man 2006 is a crime/mystery & thriller movie directed by Spike Lee. This film tells the story of two men (Denzel Washington and Clive Owen) inside a bank as it gets robbed during Christmas Eve. The two inside man were in search for money to help them finish their family’s business debts and provide better life for themselves.
But they got caught up with wrong people on this daring robbery attempt from beginning to end. After a failed hard time at the bank, they became reluctant if not frightened to get back into it and continue this robbery.
Storyline:
A man called Dalton Russell, seats in an unknown cell and recounts how he has committed the perfect robbery. Masked robbers in New York, dressed as painters and using aliases such as Steve had taken control of a Manhattan bank and hostage the patrons and employees.
They separate the hostages into groups and keep them in distinct rooms, forcing them to dress in painters who are the same as their own. The hostages are exchanged among various rooms by the robbers, who occasionally infiltrate the groups covertly. They also give part in an unspecified project that entails dismantling the floor in one of the bank’s storage rooms.
The bank is surrounded by police, and Detectives Keith Frazier and Bill Mitchell are in charge of the negotiations. The leader of the robbers, Russell, wants food, and the police provision them with pizzas with listening devices. The bugs catch a language that a worker recognizes as Albanian.
They discover that the conversations are in fact propaganda recordings of Enver Hoxha, the deceased Albanian leader, implying that the robbers anticipated the attempted surveillance.
When Arthur Case, the bank’s chairman of the board of directors and founder, detects the robbery, he hires Madeleine White as a “fixer” to secure the contents of his secure deposit box inside the bank. White schedules a conversation with Russell, who provides her to enter the bank and investigate the contents of the box, which include Nazi Germany documents.
Russell alleges that Case founded his bank with money that he obtained from the Nazis in exchange for unspecified services, culminating in the deaths of many Jews during World War II. Russell is informed by White that Case will pay him a large sum if he ruins the contents of the box.
Frazier insists that Russell lead him on a tour of the bank before authorizing the robbers to escape. Frazier assaults Russell as he is being pointed out, but is restrained by another of the robbers. After that, he explains that he deliberately attempted to provoke Russell and that the man is not a criminal.
However, when the robbers stage an execution of a hostage, this appears to be seemingly disproven.
An Emergency Services Unit team is activated as a result of the execution. They aim to stomp the bank and use rubber bullets to cause damage to those inside. Frazier learns that the robbers have implanted a listening device on the police; the robbers detonate smoke grenades, remove their disguises, and leave the bank with the hostages after learning of the police plans.
The police holds and grill everyone, but they are unable to discriminate between the identically clothed hostages and the robbers.. The robbers’ weapons, according to a search of the bank, were plastic replicas. They reveal props that prove that the hostage execution was in fact staged, and that no money or valuables have been taken. Frazier’s superior orders him to abandon the case because there is no way to identify the suspects and he is unsure whether a crime has even been committed.
Frazier, on the other hand, searches through the bank’s records and determines that safe deposit box number 392 has never been on any records since the bank was founded in 1948. In order to open it, he receives a search warrant. After that, he is confronted by White, who tells him of Case’s Nazi connections.
She tries to get Frazier to stop his investigation, but he refuses, showing a recording he had made of an incriminating conversation between the two of them that he had captured covertly. White confronts Case, who revealed that the box contained diamonds and a ring that he had taken from a Jewish friend whom he had betrayed to the Naz.is.
Russell re-starts his opening monologue while hiding behind a fake wall built inside the bank’s supply room by the robbers. A week after the robbery, he returns with the contents of Case’s secure deposit box, which include incriminating documents and several bags of diamonds. He rushes into Frazier on his way out, who doesn’t know him.
He exits the bank and takes a van with his conspirators, some of whom had been interrogated by the police. Frazier discovers the ring and a note from Russell that reads “follow the ring” when he opens the secure deposit box, and confronts Case and requests that White contact the Office of War Crimes Issues at the State Department about Case’s war crimes.
Frazier detects a loose diamond at home. Frazier reveals that when Russell and they crashed during Russell’s escape from the bank, Russell put the diamond into his pocket.
Short Review:
In the United States, the film was released on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment on March 14, 2007. The film is also available for download through Amazon Video.
Critics said about Inside Man 2006 that it received high ratings. The movie was given an overall rating of 3.5 stars out of 5 by “IGN’s” critic Eric Walkuski, who said that the film had some good points but also said what he did not like about it. He gave this assessment: “Despite its faults, Inside Man 2 is still a rather well-crafted and enjoyable suspense thriller.”
Critics praised Clive Owen for his role in the film as well After “Inside Man 2”, Martin Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff stated that the film’s ad campaign looked like a commercial for Safeway or Mondelez.
They said, in regard to this, they were embarrassed but also did not want their production company Miramax Films associated with it as such advertisements are common and Miramax had done other commercials without controversy concerning discrepancies between the reality depicted in these ads advertised and the reality in which the actual ads were meant to depict.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 29%, based on 93 reviews, with an average rating of 4.3/10. The site’s consensus reads “While it misses the mark when it comes to its biopic source material
This remake features very little that is new, and what interesting pathos there was in Kevin Spacey’s version evaporates.” On Metacritic the film received a score of 48 out 100 from 27 critics indicating mixed or average reviews.
The film earned $8.5 million in the United States and Canada, as well as $1.6 million overseas, making a worldwide total of $10.7 million according to Box Office Mojo It finished at #17 on “Box office magazine”‘s Best Films list for the year 1994 grossing US$30 Million
Spike Lee’s energetic and clever bank-heist thriller is a smart genre film that is not only entertaining on its very terms, but also manages to cleverly subvert its pulpy trappings. Read critic reviews.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 60% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on a sample of 221.[38] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 48 based on 34 reviews.[39]
Some critics praised the direction, Tim Van Patten’s photography and portrayal of the characters by Danny Aiello. However, others found the film boring and “dull”, positing that it was an exercise in form over substance.Other negative reviews focused on William Baldwin’s acting skills, citing him as wooden at best.
He also drew harsh criticism for being unable to communicate with Meg Ryan during a gunfight sequence; he ended up firing his pistol back-to-front into her abdomen which required immediate medical attention after the incident.The film has an approval rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 51 reviews with a 7.3/10 average score. It also has appeared at #12 in Empire Magazine’s “The 50 Best Films Of 1994” is currently the highest rated film, by users who voted for it (4%, above such films as Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption).
Its soundtrack album, composed by Mark Isham and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (with a choir of 55 boys), also received mixed reviews. The score won a BMI Film Music Award for best independent film score.
Box office earnings of this movie: Inside Man grossed $22,976,669 in the United States and Canada and $17,239,537 in other territories for a worldwide total of $40,371,674.
Conclusion: If you’re looking for a fast-paced thriller with a solid plot, then look no further than Inside Man. Based on the real-life story of how the FBI foiled an elaborate $6 billion heist, this movie will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you think twice about your own safety.
We recommend that you take a look at our blog post to learn more about this film. With the release of Inside Man 2006, you can relive one of the most famous heists in history and hear firsthand from the men who pulled it off. This is a fantastic opportunity to discover what it was like to be part of such an audacious crime.
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