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Spike Lee s Inside Man has a detective tell a bank robber: You saw Dog Day Afternoon. You re stalling. The problem is, we ve seen Dog Day Afternoon, and Lee is stalling. Here is a thriller that s curiously reluctant to get to the payoff, and when it does, we see why: We can t accept the motive and method of the bank robbery, we can t believe in one character and can t understand another, and if a man was old enough in the early 1940s to play an important wartime role, how old would he be now? Ninety-five? He might still be chairman of the bank he founded, but would he look like Christopher Plummer?