I'm not a Spike Lee fan - he uses the same gimmicks time and again (the whole "floating" while walking trick, for example) but with the brilliant Norton, Hoffman, Pepper and others, this story works and works well. Funnier is former Baltimore Ravens lineman Tony Siragusa as Russian mobster and pulling it off. A good contemporary story - I wish Scorsese would have had a crack at this one, it would have been a more worthy project than gangs of new york. In any case, its nice to see Lee jumping into less stereotypical projects (Hello Woody Allen?) with positive results.
Review of 25th Hour
