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The Bank Job (2008)

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Reviews Counted:140

Fresh:110

Rotten:30

Average Rating:6.7/10

Consensus: Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller.

Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for sexual content, nudity, violence and language.

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:28-02-2008

Synopsis: Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, LIONSGATE's ® The Bank Job stars Jason Statham (Transporter, Snatch, Crank, Italian Job) and Saffron... Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, LIONSGATE's ® The Bank Job stars Jason Statham (Transporter, Snatch, Crank, Italian Job) and Saffron Burrows (Klimt, Enigma). The highly-charged heist thriller tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England.

A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry (Statham) has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine (Burrows), a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself...the true story of a heist gone wrong...in all the right ways.

Directed by Roger Donaldson (No Way Out, Thirteen Days, The Recruit) and written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (Across The Universe, Flushed Away), produced by Steven Chasman (Transporter 2) and Charles Roven (Get Smart, The Dark Knight); executive producers are George McIndoe, Ryan Kavanaugh, Alan Glazer and Christopher Mapp. THE BANK JOB also stars Richard Lintern (Syriana), Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys), Daniel Mays (Atonement), Peter Bowles (Freebird), Keeley Hawes (A Cock and Bull Story), Colin Salmon (Die Another Day, Punisher: War Zone), Peter de Jersey (TV's "Holby City"), James Faulkner (Colour Me Kubrick), Sharon Maughan (Another Stakeout), Alki David (The Freediver), Michael Jibson (Flyboys), Georgia Taylor (TV's "Coronation Street") and three-time Bafta® nominee David Suchet (TV's "Poirot"). --© Lionsgate
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Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, David Suchet

Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, David Suchet, Keeley Hawes

Director: Roger Donaldson

Director: Roger Donaldson
Screenwriter: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
Producer: Steven Chasman, Charles Roven
Composer: J. Peter Robinson
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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The cast is fine, clearly enjoying the 70s period and creating characters that are likeable but thin.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
02/29/08
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Enjoyable, nicely acted and well written heist thriller that successfully weaves together a number of threads and speculates on a fascinating true story.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
02/29/08
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

In short, this is not a very distinguished film, but it does have a good enough plot to keep you watching and wondering what is the result of good research and what has been constructed by intelligent guesswork.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
02/29/08
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

­Exciting and silly fun – but like the heist itself, you’ll ­wonder if it was worth it.

Full Review Source: thelondonpaper | comment Comment
02/29/08
thelondonpaper

As a spectacle of ingenious larceny, it's not up there with Rififi, or even Sexy Beast. But it's not bad, either.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
02/29/08
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

While other countries do state-of-the-art schadenfreude, we are stuck in the steam age. We feed coal into the engines of old-fashioned heist thrillers.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
02/29/08
Nigel Andrews
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times

The best of British.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
02/29/08
Sun Online

Cinema by numbers.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
02/29/08
Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams
Little White Lies

Hugely enjoyable. Can't British cinema do this sort or thing a bit more often?

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
02/29/08
Jim Hall
Jim Hall
Channel 4 Film
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Light-hearted but no comedy, dark but not depressing, a Cockney caper that’s never close to larky, it’s a back-to-basics Brit flick that tells a good story with a minimum of pretension.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
02/29/08
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

The tone is strangely erratic, aiming for the breezy high-jinks of Ealing comedy in the first half, then collapsing into dead-eyed sadism, then back to cheeky cockney chappies for a reasonably rousing climax.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
02/28/08
Paul Arendt
Paul Arendt
BBC
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Fun but instantly forgettable, this retro heist movie illuminates a long-forgotten British blag. Despite a smart set-up, its smash ‘n’ grab raid on ’70s nostalgia leaves little to dissect over a post-movie pint.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
02/28/08
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
Total Film

It's watchable...but to some people so was Last of the Summer Wine.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
02/28/08
Tim Evans
Tim Evans
Sky Movies

Tautly mounted, it all looks authentically old fashioned, and there are a few nuggets of amusing dialogue amid the occasional violence, sexual debauchery, political corruption and overall hedonistic atmosphere.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/28/08
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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Despite a good premise, this is oddly uninvoling -- culminating in a real disappointment.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
02/28/08
Chris Hewitt (UK)
Chris Hewitt (UK)
Empire Magazine
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The Bank Job happily stole my attention

Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
08/03/09
Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

The Bank Job is not just another slick caper film. It's robust, messy, cluttered, and a cut well above the average crime job.

Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly | comment Comment
02/02/09
Tony Macklin
Tony Macklin
Fayetteville Free Weekly

Es como una película de Guy Ritchie pero sin toda esa parafernalia y sobre estetización que son su marca de fábrica.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
01/21/09
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

harientizomeno me amfisbitisimo goysto kai prospoiiti aythadeia me ta anomaliarika goysta tis agglikis afrokremas tis epohis, adynatei na dosei megethos sto terastion diastaseon politiko skandalo poy aggizei (oysiastika megethoys Watergate gia tin basilik

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
09/16/08
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

It isn't bad, but it can't find a rhythm between being based on a true, ugly story and trying to be a fun bank heist film.

Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | comment Comment
08/27/08
Jeff Bayer
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review
 
 
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