this be a dumb movie . maybe my judgment wouldn not be so harsh if the film do not promise so much and but i just felt like this movie cheat and play me for a fool at every turn . i do not have any beef with the acting and but i think the character be awful . the movie start off with clive owen character tell u what a criminal mastermind he be and and how he plan the perfect bank robbery and something he frequently remind u of later . oh yeah and he also tell u he in a prison cell and although that turn out to be a dumb metaphor . any idiot know that the best bank robbery be one where a minimum number of thing could potentially go wrong and and youre long go before the police show up . but clive owen scheme require hang around the bank for hour for no reason but to stalk around and look scary as far a i can tell . he also have to control hostage and negotiate with cop and and most fantastically of all and perform a this old house job on the bank stockroom and hide out there for a week ( i hope he bring enough food and and a bucket to pee in ) and then sneak out again . yeah and that sure sound like the perfect crime to me and clive . this plan have so many move part that the only reason it do not fall apart be the screenwriter say so . and then there be the many unexplained detail represent why be the cop so convince that the crook have accomplice among the hostage . who the hell be jodie foster character and and why be she so important that she have the mayor at her beck and call and she doesn not have to tell denzel washington her agenda because it above his pay scale . how dumb be these cop that they can not figure out one guy speaking in a foreign language for hour be not the sound of a criminal gang plan a robbery . how do the robber slip away and and why do clive owen stick around for a week . how do they find out about the bank chairman past and and the number and content of his safe deposit box . why the hell would clive owen let in jodie foster or the cop . since when do they make toy ak 47s that look real up close . how the hell do you bug a pizza box and anyway . how do clive owen manage to sneak out of a secure area of the bank during work hour and undetected . do this dispassionate criminal really feel bond enough to this cop denzel to slip him a diamond . none of these question be ever answer . there be film that achieve depth by leave you to wonder about event that happen off screen and but i never felt that way about inside man . it felt like the scene that explain these thing be cut from the movie and or these question never have any answer in the first place and and that weak . particularly annoy be jodie foster character and who would not disclose what she do and but never seem to tire of remind u how important she be . be just suppose to take her word for it and i guess . the only reason i give this movie two star be i laugh at denzel taxi cab and pina colada gag and and at the kid outrageous video game . other than that and this movie have no redeeming feature .