I've made no bones in the past about my distaste for Spike Lee but that's not because I consider him a bad director, I consider him a stereotyping bigot, and this is a very well put together film with a terrific cast, a high production value and an overall feeling of quality.
Christopher Plummer only gets better with age, Clive Owen is solid and well cast and Jodie Foster is nicely frosty.
Lee can't help himself though and Washington's look and the dynamic with his fiancee is over the top. He has Denzel tell off a cop for using the term 'Spic' and thinks nothing of having him use 'Mayonnaise' to describe Plummer nor does he blink at Dafoe saying 'Rag-heads'.
I can get over it.
This is a really good and enjoyable crime caper with a cast and crew that worked like they knew they were making something good and that's a fine thing to see.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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