Inside Man

This was the first movie Soulman and I saw the other night in our string of three. This movie stars Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe and Chiwetel Ejiofor (I can never remember his name but he's been in movies such as Serenity, Melinda and Melinda, Love Actually and Dirty Pretty Things). This film is about a bank heist and as the title suggests, there's an "inside man". I was a little skeptical of this movie before seeing it, and even afterwards thought it wasn't that great. However, the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. This movie was pretty good. I really liked how the film was paced. Right away after the movie gets going, they cut back and forth between scenes of the two detectives questioning the hostages and the heist in progress. So even though the timeline is skipping back and forth, the story unfolds in a very managable and understandable manner. Most of the planning and tactics of the bank robbers was pretty predictable/standard. That's ok though because once you find out why they are there and the Nazis are involved, it's gets much more interesting. Well, at least for me. For some reason I like to pull out the Nazi/Hitler card when comparing things and just a tiny, little part of me likes to believe the Nazis are still at large in the world. Scheming and trying to take over the world, yet being foiled time after time around every corner they turn. How could you not like that little bit of fantasy? Enough movies use that as a plot anchor or even as an element to spice things up. I would however, like to apologize to anybody reading this that would be directly or indirectly affected by my flippant attitude of the first 40 or so years of the 20th century. I'm not that serious. So......rambling again......this is a pretty good movie with enough little twists and acting to be enjoyed by many. I suggest you give it a try.