Inside was, IMHO, boring & predictable. That story has been done many, many times.
And, a hint of government drivel? You're kidding, right? That was nothing more than a Bushes Fault mocumentary. Can you explain, why in God's name Sidney Portier was in that? What's his tie to Katrina?
It is a genre exercise.
Some of the best films ever made have been genre exercises.
I would also add that Detective Frazier is a pretty original character - a real anti-hero, more morally ambiguous than Dirty Harry or Frank Bullitt or John McClane.
IM wasn’t done quite in that way before. The ending especially was a lovely bit of understatement. ‘Levees’ had some great footage of the area and interviews. It was at its best when echoing his earlier ‘Four Little Girls’ about the 1963 church bombings...just being a witness to traumatic events. The tinfoil stuff I just just dismissed.