Saw this movie last night with CDMCC and Elizabeth. The movie didn’t quite live up to my expectation, but it was still a movie I enjoyed. Also, as CDMCC pointed out, there was a lot of racial profiling in this movie and the movie seemed to be trying to make a statement about it, but didn’t really express its final opinion. The ending felt a bit off, but overall, there was closure.
Official Website
IMDb: 7.5/10 (6,984 votes)
Yahoo! Movies:The Critics: B+ / Yahoo! Users: B+
Rotten Tomatoes: RATING: FRESH / READING: 88%
Apple Trailer
Amazon.com Soundtrack
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The movie is about a bank robbery planned to perfection. Clive Owen plays the lead of the bank robbers and Denzel Washington plays the lead of the detectives. They battle in a series of mind games which were entertaining. The who, what, when, and where are never really that interesting in such movies. The rea question is why and how? Not to spoil anything, but when the trailer tells you the why, it’s not the truth.
One of the riddles Clive Owen gives to Denzel Washington is: “What weighs more? All the trees that make up all the paper currency in circulation or all the trains that pass through Grand Central Station in one day?” The answer to that riddle isn’t import, as it did its job by making the people lose focus. They actually started arguing about which Grand Central station and if you can actually pass through. Anyway, they mentioned that US paper currency isn’t made out of trees, but cotton instead. I found that surprising, because I knew they were printed on special paper, but I thought it was some special tree found in only certain parts of the world. From Facts About U.S. Money: Currency paper is composed of 25 percent linen and 75 percent cotton. I never knew this and found this pretty interesting.
The story progresses, the detective slowly catches on, but by the time he realizes the robbers and trying to stall, they rushed in. However, their plan was completed. They’ve gotten what they wanted and the trick was setup. As you probably saw in the trailer, they inter-mixed with the actual hostages and used other hostages as their alibi.
However, after the bank robbery, no one was killed; no money was stolen; and there were no robbers. Denzel Washington’s head told him to just bury it.
I won’t tell you what the real trick to it was, but lets just say Clive Owen walked out through the front door almost untouched.
Like I said, I was somewhat disappointed with the trick. Either because it was revealed too much or I was hoping for something much more cunning.
I forgot to mention that this movie had product placements everywhere, especially for Dell and Apple.
//Krunk (^_^x)