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The Bank Job

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The Bank Job (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 124 Fresh: 96  Rotten:28 Average Rating: 6.7/10
 
Consensus: A thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller. Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller. more
 
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
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 Burrows (Klimt, Enigma). The highly-charged heist thriller tautly interweaves high-level... [More]
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 [Less]

Genre: Action/Adventure

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

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

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

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02/29/08 08:46 AM
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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Enjoyable, nicely acted and well written heist thriller that successfully weaves together a number of threads and speculates on a fascinating true story.

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02/29/08 08:44 AM
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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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.

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02/29/08 08:30 AM
Derek Malcolm
This is London
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­Exciting and silly fun – but like the heist itself, you’ll ­wonder if it was worth it.

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02/29/08 08:27 AM
thelondonpaper
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As a spectacle of ingenious larceny, it's not up there with Rififi, or even Sexy Beast. But it's not bad, either.

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02/29/08 08:14 AM
Anthony Quinn
Independent
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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.

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02/29/08 07:51 AM
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
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The best of British.

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02/29/08 06:53 AM
Sun Online
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Cinema by numbers.

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02/29/08 04:26 AM
Jonathan Williams
Little White Lies
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Hugely enjoyable. Can't British cinema do this sort or thing a bit more often?

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02/29/08 03:05 AM
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.

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02/29/08 02:42 AM
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]
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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.

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02/28/08 09:49 AM
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.

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02/28/08 09:25 AM
Jamie Russell
Total Film
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It's watchable...but to some people so was Last of the Summer Wine.

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02/28/08 08:24 AM
Tim Evans
Sky Movies
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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.

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02/28/08 07:48 AM
Derek Adams
Time Out
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Despite a good premise, this is oddly uninvoling -- culminating in a real disappointment.

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02/28/08 04:27 AM
Chris Hewitt (UK)
Empire Magazine
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It's difficult to remain interested when you feel you could leave the auditorium at any time and still take away the same experience.

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05/13/08 03:12 PM
Chris Laverty
Mansized
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Bustles along to its central theft, then treads water until (it) can map a proper end game.

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05/02/08 12:57 PM
Sean O'Connell
Charlotte Weekly
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One of the more loopy caper flicks.

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03/29/08 03:25 PM
Dennis Schwartz
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The tension builds to a very high level and sustains that level for a long time.

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03/26/08 12:27 PM
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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Following three theatrical bombs, British actor Jason Statham hits pay dirt with this compelling picture about the famed 1971 Baker Street bank robbery in London.

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03/26/08 10:33 AM
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly
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