Inside man

We saw Inside Man last night and it was pretty good. I'd give it an A-, while D gave it a B+ or B++. It was a fun little puzzle of a movie. It was a little too violent for me, but there's a twist that mitigates the violence. (I hope I haven't given anything away.) I thought it was well-written, well-casted, all that jazz.

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Caro said…
I haven't heard of Inside Man, sadly enough.

We just barely watched 40 Year-Old Virgin. Pitiful, huh?
1:40 PM
Bearette said…
hee! that was a great one. you save money by not seeing them in theaters ;)
2:12 PM
Bearette said…
Inside Man has Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington, and Clive Owen in it...one of those bank heist movies with hostages and a twist.
2:12 PM
Poppy said…
Cool, I just added it to our Netflix queue. :)

Carolyn, we are frequent renters from Netflix so they throttle our receipt of new movies, so we just barely got 40 Year-Old Virgin!!! It was a great movie, I thought. :)
6:11 PM
Caro said…
I laughed all the way through!
11:00 PM
verniciousknids said…
Carolyn: don't stress...most movies come out really late here in Japan - I still haven't seen any of the Oscar nominated movies yet! I saw the 40 year old virgin on the plane to London in January...I laughed a lot - which is not always the best thing on a plane :p
7:26 AM
Elsa said…
Thanks for the review of Inside Man. I saw Clive Owen being interviewed on The Daily Show this past week. He was promoting the movie. He seemed pretty engaging and Jon Stewart and he had a good repoire going. I'll put it on my list of movies to go see. I also want to go see Thank You for Smoking
- it looks like a pretty good satirical look at lobbying.

I saw the 40-Year Old Virgin and also thought it was hysterical. I love Steve Carrell and his show The Office
12:20 PM
Bearette said…
i saw Thank You for Smoking! some of the humor left a bad taste in my mouth but it was a well-made movie. Aaron Eckhart was very good in it.
4:18 PM
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