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: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.
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
1 - 20 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
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 CriticThe 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
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
There are few things better than a flawlessly executed heist thriller, and while "The Bank Job" is not that film, it certainly comes close.
03/07/08
The material is Viagra to director Roger Donaldson...lively and effective, rolling around the known gray qualities of heroes and villains.
03/06/08
All in all, the film written by Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais feels both absolutely of the 1970s and absolutely fresh.
03/07/08
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
It’s all sufficiently brisk and engaging as it’s going on, and afterward you certainly won’t feel ripped off. But you won’t feel any differently, either.
03/04/08
Well-paced, smartly told and unpretentious, this solid British heist thriller also has moments of invention and imagination
03/07/08
Top CriticThe Bank Job is good old-fashioned bank heist movie that's based on a 1971 London robbery in which a Lloyds Bank vault was emptied while the city slept.
02/29/08
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
...an entertaining and highly serviceable caper movie.
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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June 30, 2008:
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