The Review: Inside Man Most Wanted

Inside Man Most Wanted 1/10

Trash! This trash! Inside Man: Most Wanted is not a good movie. Just thought I needed to point that out and save you time from reading the rest of this if you wanted. I loved the original movie. It was well thought out, the camera work, the acting, the music, the directing. Everything about that movie is great. It is pretty much a perfect film. A few months ago Cam and I found out that this existed. I saw it was on Netflix the other day and decided to watch it tonight. It was a bad decision. The acting in this felt like it was all a rehearsal. The voices sounded weird (I later found out some folks were British) and the way it was filmed seemed like a made for TV movie. Nothing was clever about the the way these crimes were committed. It was so fucking smash and grab. The hostages in it didn't even make a difference. They try and mimic the first movie by showing some interviews and attempting to have the main dude act like Denzel Washington-Lite and it was so forced. The lady FBI agent was there for...some reason, I guess.

This takes place five years after the first movie (in reality thirteen years later) and a group of robbers take over a federal reserve. If this was a mash and grab movie it would make sense. But for the criminals to be acting the way they were made this even more dumb. No one trusted anyone. They were stealing a bunch of fucking gold. Just when I thought the movie was finished I realized there was close to another half hour left. One of the criminals is being forced to help. Why would you have someone you are using as a leader the same person whose brother you are holding hostage? The whole Keyser Soze ending made me laugh a little which is why I gave this a 1 and not a 0. And they had the nerve to use a photo of Denzel in this. The nerve! It was an image from the first movie stuck on a wall like a portrait. And then they had a photoshopped one of Clive Owen! There is zero need for you to watch this.

Aml Ameen as NYPD hostage negotiator Remy Darbonne

Rhea Seehorn as FBI agent Dr. Brynn Stewart

Roxanne McKee as Ariella Barash

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