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The Inside Man combines the personal cop/crook relationship of Heat with the intricately planned bank robbery of Ocean’s Eleven. Jodie Foster and Willem Dafoe give uninspiring performances in admittedly bit roles, Clive Owen does a great job with the part he is given, and Denzel Washington executes unsurprisingly well the lead role. The one minor deficiency is that the motivation for the whole heist, while alluded to multiple times during the dialogue, is not sufficiently explored.