I saw this lastnight and I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with this one. It had all the tools (good actors, good plot, etc...) but it didn't amount to anything more than a regular bank robbery movie. Clive Owen was really good IMO, Denzel was alright (nothing spectacular) but I thought Jodie Foster was pretty terrible (also seemed like her part in the movie was unessecary). It was still a decent movie but defnitely disappointing. Directing was questionable at best. They decided to add in some music to scenes to try to make it more dramatic, but it just ended up making it a cheesey IMO. While I have no problem with Spike Lee directing it, it seemed they added in 3-4 racial scenes that had nothing to do with the movie.
Very true, like I said, I thought Clive Owen and Denzel were pretty good. And it wasn't Jodie Foster's acting, it was the character she played. I thought it would have been much better had she'd been a b****y DA or something.
I saw this movie over the weekend and really liked it. It was not your typical "bank robbery" movie. It was a very clever, scripted bank robbery. One that I doubt nobody has thought of before. This is one of those movies that makes you think the entire time and I loved that about it. It just wasn't 100% action which was fine with me. Denzel looked different in this movie, he looks older and a bit fatter looking in the face, it was weird but he almost sorta looked like Steve Francis in a few scenes of this movie.
Steven Biko Reuben "Hurricane" Carter Malcolm X Good Cop- Virtuosity Bad Cop- Training Day Not to mention Philidelphia, John Q and Antwoine Fisher. I think he has shown an incredible amount of range. Crimson Tide is my personal favorite. Mo' Better Blues is a close second.
It was a decent Spike Lee joint, you meant to say. My favorite film of his in recent years has been "25th Hour."
I'm with you. Denzel is my favorite actor. He is always so calm and serious, but cool all at the same time.
I saw it last night and I thought that it was pretty good except for a few things. Other than inside the bank, there were a bunch of very awkward scenes and most of them involved Jodie Foster or that old guy owner of the bank. The music was HORRIBLE. Every time they played the dramatic music while the bank robbers were doing their thing, I would do the Dr. Evil's "Mwaaaa Mwaaaaa! Mwaaaa!" laugh and it went perfectly. There were some parts that really made me laugh, especially the video game scene and the part where Denzel says, "Thank you Mr. Bank Robber" For the last half of the movie, I kept waiting for everything to come together, but after it was over I felt like it never really tied up well. Also, I never really got who was the inside man. I won't talk about that any more because I don't want to spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen the movie.
my favorite movie quote is from 25th hour....the "f**k everyone" speech. know what i'm talking about?
That was funny! I agree with you 100% on those two points. But I also think they wanted us to use our brains a bit to put it all together. Not sure who the inside man was either, but I have a good idea....
I totally agree. I saw it on Sat. night after someone told me that it was not very good but I had my doubts on their opinion. I liked it alot. It is not your typical bank robbing flick. If anything the entire plot, ***Possible Spoiler*** plays off of the whole "typical bank robbery" theme to surprise you. I agree on the Jodie Foster character though, I didn't think she was anything special. Denzel was also ok, not up to his best. Clive Owen was really good even though you rarely saw him. It's not Spike Lee's best flick but I was definitely not dissapointed. I like Spike's flick and I like his commentary on the racial tension (which he does in every movie). I am so sick of people stereotyping someone with a beard and turban as a terrorist and I am glad he pointed that out in the flick.
It was alright, nothing special though. I was kind of disappointed with the way they built it up so much and then the climax wasn't really delivered all that well. Overall though I think it was worth the price of admission, and that's the way I usually judge movies.
Yea, that quote might be one of the funniest things ever said in a movie. I have a funny story relating that line. A buddy of mine was with some friends at some club in NYC. Apparently he was the only person to have seen that movie. All of a sudden he starts shouting expletives and cursing random groups of people he saw, thinking his friends would know what he was talking about. Soon enough he finds himself being thrown out of the club, and him shouting to the bouncers "its from a movie, its from a movie!" I think he learned his lesson, as nowadays if you ask him about the movie he pretends he hasn't seen it.
yeah, i would also say that it was alright. good enough to pay to see, but not good enough to watch again. and i dont care if it was jodie foster or her character, but she was just annoying in that movie.
I felt about the same jodie's character was pretty useless I did not see what she actually *DID* anything Denzel was fine . . . Clive was kewl but it was not too much of anything kind of Blah Spike's camera work was getting distracted Rocket River
I don't think that is range, he always plays a guy with an amazing amount of will-power who over comes something, except maybe in training day. and even training day is an extension of his usual character, it was just a guy who was headed on a self destructive path. that however doesn't make him a bad actor, jack nicholson plays almost the same character in every movie, someone who's a bit off, but he's still a great actor. but all of his characters seem the same especially, bleek in mo better blues malcolm x the coach in remember the titans the pyschiatrist in Antoine Fisher (great movie btw) the lawyer in philadelphia, he always plays a guy with a rigid value system who learns something at the end of the movie.
