Despite a good premise, this is oddly uninvoling -- culminating in a real disappointment.
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02/28/08
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, David Suchet
Director: Roger Donaldson
Reviews for The Bank Job
Top CriticTautly 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.
02/28/08
Top CriticCinema by numbers.
02/29/08
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.
02/29/08
The cast is fine, clearly enjoying the 70s period and creating characters that are likeable but thin.
02/29/08
It's watchable...but to some people so was Last of the Summer Wine.
02/28/08
The best of British.
02/29/08
Exciting and silly fun – but like the heist itself, you’ll wonder if it was worth it.
02/29/08
As a spectacle of ingenious larceny, it's not up there with Rififi, or even Sexy Beast. But it's not bad, either.
02/29/08
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.
02/29/08
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.
02/29/08
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.
02/28/08
Hugely enjoyable. Can't British cinema do this sort or thing a bit more often?
02/29/08
Top CriticEnjoyable, nicely acted and well written heist thriller that successfully weaves together a number of threads and speculates on a fascinating true story.
02/29/08
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.
02/28/08
Top CriticThere's no style, flash or flow to these proceedings -- the story proceeds as if by rote, a recital of events that's always a few paces behind any able-minded viewer.
03/06/08
THE BANK JOB is like a good movie trapped under ice. You can see it wants to be good on the surface, but just can't seem bust through.
07/22/08
There's TOO much story here. There are so many characters, twists, and turns in The Bank Job that the movie often feels disjointed and borderline impossible to follow.
03/07/08
Donaldson's film, about a dangerous crime during a tumultuous time period, suffers from a filmmaker utterly uninterested in dangerous filmmaking.
03/06/08
The falling-apart of this caper is much odder and more intriguing than the setting-up, but by the time The Bank Job gets there, it has already fallen apart.
03/07/08
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July 04, 2008:
These heady high jinks ultimately deflate as a gritty collection of assembled journalistic details, with little solid dramatic scrutiny of dirty politics or shadowy personalities. 
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