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A perfect bank robbery goes awry, leading to high-stakes negotiations and a hostage situation.
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A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
"Movie that served as an inspiration for the series 'La Casa de Papel', 'Inside Man' shows Spike Lee stepping out of his comfort zone. After all, until then, he was used to telling more intimate stories, more localized ones and with clearer racial flags. Here, however, he reverses this and sets off to direct a traditional thriller. In the plot, a robber (Clive Owen) sets up a perfect plan to rob a bank. Everything is thought out to the smallest details. Thus, when the investigators and detectives arrive at the scene (a brilliant trio, with Denzel Washington, Willem Dafoe and Chiwetel Ejiofor), things never go as planned. The hostages are confused with kidnappers, the conversations with the criminals don't get anywhere and the policy keeps going in circles trying to unravel that group. It's exciting, it's thrilling and, above all, well thought out. On top of that, it's worth saying, Spike Lee finds a space to reverberate some of the flags he previously raised about prejudice and racial equality."