I wish Spike would/could do more of this classic genre movie auteurist smuggling. What a blast.

a fun, sturdy little heist programmer with the most overqualified cast and crew you've ever seen. spike could not be having more fun getting to do his own clever, tightly-plotted little magic trick riff on Dog Day Afternoon peppered with his brand of NY personality humor, throwaway details on race/class (that other filmmakers would likely ignore tbh) and a massive terrance blanchard score. denzel in that fit, delivering the line "thank you... bank robber", just the goat. a total blast.

Pretty much my favorite thing in cinema is to watch characters execute an immaculately-planned heist. So yes, I enjoyed this movie.

in quarantine, we are all inside man :( anyway, this is a blast

A very Spike Lee bank robbery. What is up with that one weird shot of Denzel that takes you out of the entire film?

I have this character, he’s the most normal cop in the world, that’s his thing he’s just really really normal. I think I’ll cast, hmm... William Dafoe.

i have never lived in new york but with every watch i appreciate how much this is one of the most New York movies of the last 25 years, and probably the most New York movie since “The Taking of Pelham 123.”

CHAIYYA CHAIYYA CHAIYYA CHAIYYA
CHAL CHAIYYA CHAIYYA CHAIYYA CHAIYYA

Watched this on MY PHONE on AN AIRPLANE. This movie kicks ass. I love that the message is “the cops suck, bank robbers are moral, and everybody who ever worked with the Nazis should be ruined”

Also hilarious that it ends with Denzel Washingon having what we are assured is going to be some very good sex.

the spike lee double dolly shot is something very pleasing to me

Playground fun. A well-oiled game of cops and robbers riddled with the expected racial commentary we’ve grown to love Spike for, even if the script does teeter on the edge of fan-service tedium, the ungodly amount of embarrassingly unsubtle references to New York crime movies growing tiresome towards the end. Short of the wavering script and a few stylistic setbacks (not least the horrible colour process of the interrogation scenes), the cast here succeed flawlessly in getting the job done. Nobody does badass like Denzel, plus he’s graced with one of Lee’s finest trademark dolly-shots. Modern-day heist movies don’t get much more watchable than this.

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A better complement to The Taking of Pelham 123 than the actual remake of The Taking of Pelham 123.

their all dumb

Needed about 40% less 'Denzel figures things out' and 40% more 'Denzel goes toe-to-toe with Clive Owen and Jodie Foster'. I respect the hell outta this film for the subversive ending, even though it was frustrating when I first watched it. Netflix's 'Money Heist' series better pay homage.

[Review pending]

Nem lembrava que eu já tinha visto esse filme, e por isso que reassisti...
Envelheceu meio mal né? piadas sexistas e o denzel força a barra em ser um policial cuzão as vezes
tirando isso é um filme bem bolado e interessante

Fühlt sich an wie ein Film, der früher im Sonntagnachmittagsprogramm von ProSieben gelaufen wär.

Fühlt sich an wie eine Community-Folge, in der sie Heist-Filmen huldigen bzw. sie parodieren.

Fühlt sich an, als ob Spike Lee vielleicht irgendwann doch noch einen Film für Marvel macht.

Ich komm nicht über das Handwerk der "you never know who's listening"-Szene hinweg

Casa de Papel hat einfach bei Spike Lee geklaut haha

This shit was fun! Talk about being tight too! I mean, what was up with that video game sequence though? Like Spike, we love you man, but what exactly is that saying (we know what it's saying, but come on now)? We doing the whole boomer thing that video games cause violence? Whaaaaack.

This was a dope, NY movie above and all. Love it when Spike injects that flavor we admire and love into even a genre film like this, which was impeccably cast, well shot and coordinated and didn't seem messy in the slightest during the chaotic sequences of the heist itself. Thank you... Bank robber!

solid noo yawk city thriller for a lazy sunday afternoon

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Spike Lee and the writer had the idea for how the criminals pull off the heist and then forced an entire film around it. Jodie Foster’s character was completely irrelevant, nothing would have changed if her character wasn’t in it. Foster, Denzel Washington and Willam Dafoe, all being brilliant actors, don’t get used to their potential at all, but kudos to Clive Owen for agreeing to do a film where he spends 90% of it behind a mask. Some funny lines and interesting turns though make it enjoyable enough to watch, although would be better if the run time was cut in half.

Half-star for Jodie and Denzel putting on a clinic