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.
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07/25/08
The Bank Job (2008)
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Reviews Counted:139
Fresh:110
Rotten:29
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jul 31, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $30,028,592
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 CriticThe best thing about this caper whose elements include a royal scandal, exotic locations, MI5 involvement, a brothel with a clientele from high places, corrupt cops, romance and a heist by a bunch of small-time crooks, is that it is based on fact.
07/25/08
Top CriticA tall tale like this one needed to be sprightlier and cheekier; what we get is boring competence.
03/17/08
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
Roger Donaldson, the Australian-born director who, in recent years, has become the kind of solid pro that Hollywood developed in the nineteen-thirties and forties, has made a straightforward, tight-knit crime thriller.
03/03/08
Top CriticOne of the more loopy caper flicks.
03/29/08
This banal nonaction story is Jason Statham's Raw Deal or Boiling Point.
03/07/08
Longtime screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have woven a masterful narrative full of odd twists and dark humor from which Australian director Roger Donaldson and a prime cast mine plum characters and a tight plot to satisfying effect.
03/07/08
Top CriticBrimming with satisfying twists and populated with colorful characters, this represents a Job well done.
03/16/08
I give in. Regardless of his limited acting range and penchant for choosing the goofiest projects available, Jason Statham is pretty awesome.
03/03/08
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
Based in speculative part on the true story of a robbery in a vital London safety deposit vault, The Bank Job adds the spice of political intrigue as an underlying factor to the actual crime.
03/07/08
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
The Bank Job shapes up as one of the liveliest entertainments of the year and, in its twisted way, a genuine feel-good movie.
03/05/08
There may not be much to take home from The Bank Job, but it's a solid evening's entertainment, which is not so common these days.
03/13/08
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
Knowing that something as outrageous as this could be true does give the film some added spice.
03/12/08
(The Bank Job is) efficient without being pedestrian, tweaking the suspense here and there to add the proper amount of intrigue to the elements.
03/07/08
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
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July 04, 2008:
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