It's a fantastic set up: a group of strangers, thrown together by fate, form unlikely bonds and are forced to come together when they're taken hostage during a bank robbery, a heist which might not be all that it seems. Meanwhile, outside the bank, police forces and hostage negotiators struggle to get the human shields released and take down the bad guys, who are themselves not all they seem. I wish I could say that I was talking about ABC's new drama The Nine , but I'm not. Rather the above description, eerily similar to that of The Nine 's pilot episode, belong's to Spike Lee's taut thriller from a few months back, Inside Man . During the screening of Inside Man that I attended several months ago, I was on the edge of my seat, my heart racing as I waited to discover the truth behind the bank heist plot, the fate of the hostages, and the motive of the mastermind behind the heist. No such tension here in The Nine (formerly known as Nine Lives ), a paint-by...