Inside Man

Based on a true story. Sort of typical infiltration of a crime family but still really good.

This is a poor man's 'Goodfellas'.

It's early 80's. New York police detective Bobby Belucci (Emile Hirsch) has anger issues. After beating up his wife's boyfriend, he's stuck working the files at a desk. One night at a bar, he befriends a thug connected to the Gambino crime family. He starts working for Roy DeMeo (Danny Abeckaser) who infamously committed an incredible number of murders using the Gemini Method. This is a crime drama B-movie. It does have two things going for it. First, the real life crime story is very compelling. They're murderous gangsters. The second is the solid acting especially from Emile Hirsch. He's always been very good despite his declining career. I really like his complicated character. The big drawback is the B-movie filmmaking. I have not seen Danny A. Abeckaser's other directing work. I doubt that I missed much. The writing could be better, too. This is mostly a B-movie except for some of the actors.

This was actually very good. My score doesn't quite reflect that. It was just crafted very well, but I kept getting impatient with it. I kept pausing it, all the while acknowledging how well the story was put together.

Wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Hirsch was great.

Trudging, missing parts of the story that would actually fill the movie, and feels far too rushed. Also note a very obvious gaffe: at the end he hands Mary an envelope of plainly fake 100s with "for movie use only" and "united we stand" printed on them in plain view

Very boring, although the story was interesting the main protagonist was very frustrating to watch. The ending also felt very weak and underwhelming compared to other parts of the movie.

Bobby is trying to be a junior Ray Liotta from Goodfellas, and fails miserably. This guy is too short, wimpy and is wrong for the part. Otherwise, a low grade B movie trying to hard.

Seriously, how many movies can be made about an undercover agent who buries himself too far deep into a heavyweight criminal ring as a henchman before rapidly climbing the ranks to become the trusted confidant of the criminal mastermind? And don't forget to describe the movie as about the inside man in a very prominent fashion. Emile Hirsch has been doing an excellent job as an actor with all the indie movie projects he's been working on for the last fifteen years. But not every movie can be a home run. Sometimes, he can pass by with a ground-rule double of a film.

semi true mob story, was entertaining, but nothing more or nothing less