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Pilot, 10/4/06
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The Nine: Pilot, 10/4/06
Tuesday 10.10.2006
alice ttlg || 05:27 PM
I was really prepared to not like this show, it seemed too much of a ripoff of the movie Inside Man - and it is but it's a good ripoff. The premise is different, it focuses on the hostages more than the thieves and the heist. It brings to mind some dialogue from the near the end of the movie Speed, where Keanu Reeves tells Sandra Bullock that relationships formed on intense situations never last (and she says they'll have to base their relationship on sex then :)).
The focus is on what happened during the two days they were in the bank and how it affected their lives afterward, not just immediately but ongoing. Bits and pieces are revealed of those two days in each episode so it builds slowly, exploring the changes in how people feel and think and act.
It's a good cross-section of characters and actors. A cop (Tim Daly in very good form), a prosecutor (Kim Raver using the chops she learned on 24), a doctor, a social worker, a bank manager (Chi McBride in a stellar performance), two tellers, a child, a dorky lonely guy (played brilliantly by John Billingsly) and one of the bank robbers too, although he's less interesting than the hostages.
So, something good to watch after Lost each Wednesday!
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