History YMMV / InsideMan

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny:
** However it’s a bit of a gray area and it might also be UnintentionalPeriodPiece. But this movie was a lot more tense at the time since it was just released a few years after 9/11 and was taking place less than a mile from the World Trade Center site. Remember we don’t really know what their intent is until very late in the movie. However with the passage of time and more and more movies and TV shows being made about terrorism and crime since then this movie has lost a lot of its impact.
** In a way, the sequence showing the violent video game scene can be seen as over the top, preachy and anvilicious, due to many studies saying that video games don't make people violent and that violent video games have been around since video games were first created.

* KarmicOverkill: Harry, who was only trying to protect his son from a false accusation and is willing to even label himself a pedophile to protect him, ends up [[spoiler:arrested and widowed.]]

* {{Anvilicious}}: Vikram's rant about how he is constantly held in suspicion because he looks like he might be an Arab (he is actually a Sikh) in the post-9/11 world is anything but subtle. Granted, it's a fair point, and the cops did handle him a little more roughly than needed (with the police commander later trying to deny that their little comments about the "Arab" ever happened) but he says all this while he is being questioned (rather politely and respectfully) by two detectives who are trying to get information that could save people's lives, and he seems to care more about bemoaning his unfair treatment at the hands of other people than cooperating with them, making him come across rather unsympathetically.
** As per WordOfGod from Director Creator/SpikeLee, the brief clip of the young boy's game is intended to be anvilicious. The game is a thinly-veiled GTA-expy in which the player is explicitly rewarded for ''selling crack'' (and stealing cars). After shooting an NPC, a set of massive text saying 'KILL DAT NIGGA' appears, after which a grenade is shoved in the NPC's mouth and set off. In Lee's words...
---> '''Spike Lee''': "I just hope people understand that this is an absolute statement about my horror at how violent these games that young kids play are, and also the infatuation with violence and gangsta rap among the black community. It's not a real game but it's not that far-fetched from the games that are being sold, and more importantly the mindset behind them. There are just too many black men killing each other as it is."
** Afterwards, Lee regretted putting the sequence in the movie...not because it was so ridiculous and over-the-top, but because he thought "The sad thing is somebody is probably gonna make a game out of it and take that as inspiration."

** He was the only hostage actually being in danger of being killed (by the police). He's singled out by the robbers--even though he was cooperative with them--to be pushed outside blindfolded and with his hands tied--''and'' gagged, so he can't audibly say "My hands are tied" when the police demands him to put his hands up; this leads to the police almost shooting him, in the confusion. They also mistake him for an Arab (this is a recurrent annoyance for Vikram), which makes them immediately assume he is booby-trapped.

** The police rip off his turban (head covering), which is understandable, but then refuse to give it back to him during his interrogation for unexplainable reasons, even though he keeps asking for it and explains it is of religious value to him.
** All of this leads to him going into a rant about being constantly discriminated against by "random" searches (remember, this is just post 9-11). Even Frazier, who is strict with the other hostages, apparently feels for Vikram, as he calmly and friendly says "Just put the ice on your face".

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are Russell's collaborators OnlyInItForTheMoney or do they are they also partially motivated with exposing Case's crimes?

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* WhatAnIdiot: Arthur Case in spades. [[spoiler:If you possess evidence implicating you as a Nazi collaborator, why lock it away in a safe deposit box rather than destroy it on the spot? Of course, it's possible that he retains it out of guilt- it IS one of the last remnants of a family murdered by the Nazi's after all, so destroying it to conceal your misdeeds might be too low even for him]].

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
* IdiotPlot: The series starts due to Harry refusing to let Janice report the child pornography USB.