The material is Viagra to director Roger Donaldson...lively and effective, rolling around the known gray qualities of heroes and villains.
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03/06/08
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
Director Roger Donaldson commendably avoids the violence-soaked artiness of Guy Ritchie's crime yarns, but fails to find a strong arc of action through the cluttered, sometimes confusing story.
03/06/08
Donaldson builds enough tension and draws enough humor from the situation to cover such lapses.
03/06/08
Fascinating.
03/06/08
The Bank Job would probably go down a little easier if there weren't so much potential for seizing on a ripe cultural moment. Some stories are too good for mediocrity.
03/06/08
The Bank Job is fun to watch while both the heist and its often bloody consequences unravel in front of you.
03/06/08
There'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
Ultimately, we're not really interested in seeing whether there are any happy endings for any of these people.
03/06/08
Lurking behind a criminally bad title is a surprisingly tight, clever, twisty heist tale.
03/06/08
What makes director Roger Donaldson's movie greater than zany heist fare is that this particular robbery really happened and that this episode illuminated an almost moral clash between the haves and the have-nots of Great Britain.
03/06/08
Watching The Bank Job, you buy the heist, and you also buy the entertaining layer cake of British society -- the black radicals, smut lords, and MI5 agents who treat cops like janitors, all fighting for their piece of the action.
03/06/08
Any heist film containing the line 'I will not be lectured by the porn king of Soho!' is on the right track.
03/06/08
Well, at least Katie Holmes and Diane Keaton aren't in this one.
03/06/08
Based on a true story, The Bank Job has something most modern day caper films are missing--a sense of verisimilitude.
03/06/08
Where The Bank Job really thrives is in its depiction of the cold, hard realities of a life spent dipping your hands in other people’s pockets.
03/06/08
It gets right the twists, the humor, the tension, the sexiness and, yes, the violence of a really fun, taut British thriller.
03/06/08
The Bank Job is a solidly built and entertaining Brit B-movie about a heist that goes wrong. And right.
03/06/08
Just isn't clever or surprising enough: it's complicated but conventional, strikes no sparks...[and] fails to juggle its myriad tones successfully.
03/06/08
Rote situations, wooden dialogue, and Jason Statham.
03/06/08
Maybe it's not the 100-percent truth -- maybe it's half, or more, invented. But it's a damn good guess, and a ridiculously entertaining one.
03/06/08
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July 04, 2008:
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