Certainly interesting as well as convoluted, Inside Man stars David Tennant as a vicar with a big problem.
His son's math coach inadvertently opens a jump drive with child pornography on it and comes to a wrong conclusion.
Another plot concerns a reporter looking for a missing woman. She seeks out the help of a Doctor of Criminology now on Death Row, who is often consulted on cases.
These stories converge.
I had a major problem due to the way this was directed, not to mention the absurd way the vicar tried to solve his dilemma.
The child porn was given to the vicar by a disturbed parishoner. The math coach thinks it's his or his son's. The vicar knows once she leaves she is going to the police. He detains her, hoping to get a recorded confession from the parishioner.
In the awful direction department, we have Tennant acting guilty as sin and changing his story more than once.
How about - "this was given to me by one of my parishoners to handle, and I am dealing with it. As their vicar, that is all I can say."
Oh heck no.
I won't go into what he does.
He could have dumped that hard drive. The police show up, he says 1) I don't know what she's talking about; 2) I am aware of it but am bound as a vicar to let my parishoner come forward. The police would have done forensics on all the computers in the house. And guess what they would have found - zippo.
Consequently I couldn't buy into any of it. The moral of the story? We can all be bad people if the circumstances call for it. I prefer, We can all be stupid people if the circumstances call for it.
His son's math coach inadvertently opens a jump drive with child pornography on it and comes to a wrong conclusion.
Another plot concerns a reporter looking for a missing woman. She seeks out the help of a Doctor of Criminology now on Death Row, who is often consulted on cases.
These stories converge.
I had a major problem due to the way this was directed, not to mention the absurd way the vicar tried to solve his dilemma.
The child porn was given to the vicar by a disturbed parishoner. The math coach thinks it's his or his son's. The vicar knows once she leaves she is going to the police. He detains her, hoping to get a recorded confession from the parishioner.
In the awful direction department, we have Tennant acting guilty as sin and changing his story more than once.
How about - "this was given to me by one of my parishoners to handle, and I am dealing with it. As their vicar, that is all I can say."
Oh heck no.
I won't go into what he does.
He could have dumped that hard drive. The police show up, he says 1) I don't know what she's talking about; 2) I am aware of it but am bound as a vicar to let my parishoner come forward. The police would have done forensics on all the computers in the house. And guess what they would have found - zippo.
Consequently I couldn't buy into any of it. The moral of the story? We can all be bad people if the circumstances call for it. I prefer, We can all be stupid people if the circumstances call for it.