I’ve had a copy of this 2006 Spike Lee film for years and decided to finally watch it. In their fourth shoot together, Lee has Denzel Washington as a NYC police detective hostage negotiator who is called in to resolve a hostage crisis/robbery at a bank. We know it’s a robbery from scene one when the gang leader, played by Clive Owen, tells us so. The layers of information are peeled back slowly in this one and it’s very interesting as Washington comes to understand what’s going on and, indeed, what’s happened. A well done film