movies of the week

I wish I could have done more.


Inside Man

Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster

A bank robbery set up, with several people as hostages but dressed like the robbers -suits, masks and all. Everyone goes out unscathed (and free), including the bank robbers. It's a clever film. It's unpredictable. It's great.



Death Tunnel

For whatever reason, five crazy girls allowed themselves to be locked up in an abandoned hospital where 63,000 people died from a "white plague" disease. It would have been exciting had the film centered on the "ghosts" of those thousands of people who died. But instead, it focuses on the unhappy ending of a "love story" of a nurse, who had an affair with the hospital's owner/doctor. Killed herself and her babay, and, yez, had her revenge on the five girls, who later on discover they are, in a way or another, connected to people who died there. But the place, with its eerie look, is a perfect setting.

The Tunnel, under the hospital where more bodies were hidden, would have been a good setting too. But, the director did not know it. Too bad.