Inside Man Ties Up And Burgles US Weekend Box Office

Inside Man, the new Spike Lee film starring Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington and Clive Owen, has thrashed the arse off the US weekend box office, taking more than double its nearest competitor.

The US weekend box success of Inside Man has left us convinced of a few things. We think that Inside Man is top of the US weekend box office because American audiences have recently been starved of decent, intelligent action thrillers; that Inside Man’s weekend box office popularity will finally push Clive Owen into the Hollywood big league; and that now Inside Man is sitting on top of the US weekend box office, millions of Americans are planning on copying the tactics seen in the film to rob their very own bank in the near future.

Inside Man, the film sitting on top of the US weekend box office, has been hailed as one of the most intelligent conventional mainstream thrillers to have hit cinemas in a long time. However, Inside Man seems just a little bit too ‘out there’ for our delicate minds. Perhaps if Spike Lee (DVDs) would have made more of an effort to incorporate contemporary cinematic themes into Inside Man, it would have done even better at the weekend box office. Let’s hope this is rectified for the DVD, when Inside Man will contains extra footage of gay cowboys and black men dressed up as hilarious old ladies. Here’s the full US weekend box office chart…

1 - Inside Man (A film which apparently has a big Sixth Sense-style
twist at the end. Seeing as how the film co-stars Christopher Plummer,
we wouldn’t be surprised if he turned out to have some kind of dodgy secret. Mainly because he creeps us out) $28,969,00

2 - V For Vendetta (Along with Inside Man, this is a weekend box office
one-two for main characters having their faces covered up for the whole
film. Why couldn’t the makers of War Of The Worlds have the same idea?) $12,326,000

3 - Stay Alive (Like a weirdly populist re-imagining of the sequel to Saturday Night Fever where everybody dies in a gory mess) $11,208,000

4 - Failure To Launch (We’ve thought about this for weeks - why does a
ropey romantic comedy about a man who lives with his Mum have a title
that is obviously about impotence? Anybody know?) $10,800,000

5 - The Shaggy Dog (Tim Allen has moved on to a film career, but what
about those three poor Home Improvement boys? We worry about them, and
endlessly stroking the tatty photograph of them we keep under our pillow will only do them so much
good) $9,137,000

6 - She’s The Man (We’ve seen this advertised on TV, and it looks very
much like it’s about a woman dressing up as Andy Milonakis for a bit) $7,429,000

7 - Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector (Never heard of Larry The
Cable Guy? Us neither, although we get the impression that this is like
Jethro making a film - and that’s something nobody needs) $7,050,000

8 - The Hills Have Eyes (A film about an idiot describing the faces of a
room containing Damon Hill, Harry Hill, William Hill, Katy Hill, Benny
Hill, Faith Hill, Hank Hill and Lauryn Hill) $4,250,000

9 - Eight Below (What film shall we watch tonight dear? The one where
all the dogs slowly freeze to a painful death? Sounds delightful) $2,737,000

10 - 16 Blocks (The producers missed a trick here - they should have
called it 16 Bollocks, and made it about Bruce Willis trying to escort
Mos Def past eight angry naked men) $2,215,000

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[story by Stuart Heritage]