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movie review - Inside Man

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2021.01.11

The main weakness of Heist movies is being too clever. And this one is too clever in spades. I don't recommend it because it not only suffers from that problem but also not delivering any real kind of pay-off. I'm not sure what happened to this but it feels like there were problems on set or possibly that the editors couldn't stitch together whatever they were looking for. The greasy dollop of dated sexism didn't help.

I rather hope this pandemic stuff winds down, soon.

Not recommended.

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