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movie review - Inside Man

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row