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nside Man is an intricate yarn about what happens when four criminals, led by Dalton Russell (Owen), go into a Manhattan bank and take 50 people hostage. Keith Frazier (Washington) is the NYPD detective charged with finding a way out of the crisis. Plummer portrays the bank's board chairman who hires a mysterious, well-connected "fixer" (Foster) to help him protect a secret.

Spike Lee directed Inside Man, and the movie is sprinkled with his trademark humor, racial observations and location shooting in New York City. The result is a slightly offbeat heist film that I don't think has enough intensity to be a top-notch thriller, but is nonetheless reasonably entertaining. However, Inside Man lacks the depth of Lee's best films.