Key Takeaways
- Film Overview: Inside Man is a heist thriller directed by Spike Lee, featuring a complex plot that keeps viewers guessing.
- Box Office Success: The film grossed $184.4 million worldwide, making it Spike Lee’s highest-grossing film.
- Critical Acclaim: It holds an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, praised for its smart storytelling and engaging twists.
- Release Date: Inside Man will be available on Netflix starting June 1.
Everyone loves a heist thriller, perhaps because secretly we all love the idea of stealing lots of money and getting away with it. But a true heist thriller can’t be plainly straightforward; it’s got to have a bit more meat on the bones. This is a prime example of that idea. Twenty years on from the premiere of one of the most layered crime films of the 2000s, viewers are about to find out once more if crime truly does pay.
Inside Man is breaking back into the Netflix vaults from June 1, giving people the chance to witness Spike Lee‘s $186 million heist thriller again, or for the first time. The plot revolves around a group of bank robbers who stage a daring robbery on a Wall Street bank, but not all is as it appears. The movie follows three characters — the NYPD negotiator trying to figure out what the robbers actually want, the mysterious fixer who enters the picture to protect a seriously dark secret connected to the bank’s owner, and the genius behind the robbery. Now, that does seem like a fairly straightforward plot, but the movie has so many twists and turns in it that you’ll never see the direction in which it goes. Even the hostages are part of the plan.
Inside Man stars Denzel Washington (Training Day) as Detective Keith Frazier, the NYPD negotiator handling the case; Clive Owen (Children of Men) as Dalton Russell, the mastermind behind the robbery; Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs) as Madeleine White, a fixer; Christopher Plummer (Knives Out) as Arthur Case, the bank chairman; Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) as Captain John Darius; Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) as Detective Bill Mitchell, Frazier’s partner; and Kim Director (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2) as Stevie, one of Dalton’s crew members.
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Was ‘Inside Man’ a Success?
The movie was a huge mainstream hit, all things considered. Inside Man grossed $184.4 million worldwide against a $45 million budget, so it was a big financial success and, perhaps most relevantly and almost unbelievably, it also made it Spike Lee’s highest-grossing film. Considering his storied history, that’s almost hard to fathom. Not only that, but critics really enjoyed it too. The film currently sits at an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 76 on Metacritic, with critics praising it as a slick, smart heist thriller.
Inside Man comes to Netflix on June 1.
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Was ‘Inside Man’ a Success?
The movie was a huge mainstream hit, all things considered. Inside Man grossed $184.4 million worldwide against a $45 million budget, so it was a big financial success and, perhaps most relevantly and almost unbelievably, it also made it Spike Lee’s highest-grossing film. Considering his storied history, that’s almost hard to fathom. Not only that, but critics really enjoyed it too. The film currently sits at an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 76 on Metacritic, with critics praising it as a slick, smart heist thriller.
Inside Man comes to Netflix on June 1.
