The cast is fine, clearly enjoying the 70s period and creating characters that are likeable but thin.
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02/29/08
The Bank Job (2008)
79 %
Reviews Counted: 136 Fresh: 107 Rotten:29 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Consensus:
Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller.
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]
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
Screenwriter: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
Producer: Steven Chasman, Charles Roven
Composer: J. Peter Robinson
Reviews
Enjoyable, 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
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
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
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
Hugely enjoyable. Can't British cinema do this sort or thing a bit more often?
02/29/08
Top Critic
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
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 Critic
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
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.
02/28/08
Top Critic
Despite a good premise, this is oddly uninvoling -- culminating in a real disappointment.
02/28/08
Top Critic
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.
08/27/08
Despite the name of the movie, this is not the typical mindless action b-movie that Jason Statham specializes in. It is much more an exploration of British corruption, sexual and otherwise, at the highest levels of 1960s British society. Not a great movie
08/23/08
Jason Statham sports enough stubble to scrape the metal off a gun. Not that he'd want to do so in this slight, silly heist movie, which turns out to be plenty of fun.
08/09/08
... by turns funny and suspenseful, and just a tad trashy in its speculations.
08/06/08
Blazing with the ring of truth, The Bank Job is a tense and involving caper movie with more than the usual layers: a genuine Royal scandal.
07/25/08
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