Brilliant Con Job

When two time Oscar nominated director Spike Lee decides to try his hand in a heist thriller, rest is assured that it would be more than ordinary stuff we get to see & hell it is something. First he gets an awesomely written script by Russell Gewirtz and the cast is adorable. It is quite obvious from the set up itself that there will be comparisons with Dog Day Afternoon and how clever Lee is, he uses the reference in the film itself. Let me use that connection once more, I think this is the best heist thriller post Dog Day Afternoon and that is only similarity these two films have got.

Let's get back to this insanely clever film. I mean it is packed with surprises after surprises. First it starts with a Hindi (Indian) song from the Oscar Winner Indian Musician A.R Rehman (Real surprise to me)then the brilliant casting it has. Getting Dangel Washington, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer, Chiwetel Ejiofor & Willem Dafoe under the same script and handling them to perfection is a commendable job and that pays off nicely. As I have already said the story is really clever and smart and that is brilliantly handled by an equally smart narration. The narration keeps moving back & forth in a non linear manner but in that way it conceals more than revealing anything at all, certainly this adds to the suspense none the less. The con itself is of the highest order and the pre war Nazi connection adds up to the dark narration.

The dialogues are something I really liked. They have been brilliantly written and some of them really had me going.

So with an impressive cast, clever story and brilliant direction Inside man seriously works fine with me. I am going 8 out of 10 for Inside Man, It is really impressive.