“Inside Man” (** out of four) was an uninvolving true-crime potboiler about a disgraced NYPD detective (Emile Hirsch) who seeks personal and professional redemption by going undercover to expose a violent crime syndicate affiliated with the mob (Robert Davi, George V. Andreakos, and others). Overly familiar and derivative story of police corruption, mob ties, and fake NYC accents. Hirsh is atypically unconvincing in the lead as a tough NYC cop. Bo Dietl who was a real life undercover cop here plays an NYPD captain. Incidentally, this has no relation to the far superior Denzel Washington/Spike Lee 2006 film of the same name.

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