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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
The 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.
Top CriticBlazing 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.
Top CriticKnowing that something as outrageous as this could be true does give the film some added spice.
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.
Donaldson has never found much of a cinematic voice, but his extensive experience serves him well on this finely tuned heist film.
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.
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.
Roger Donaldson... juggles a complicated story with oodles of peripheral characters without dropping a subplot.
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.
The Bank Job is smart, well-paced, exciting entertainment for adults -- something that is more of a rarity than it should be.
Based on a true story, The Bank Job has something most modern day caper films are missing--a sense of verisimilitude.
The Bank Job is both an adrenalin-fuelled heist tale, a hit of history and a background glance at a world that no longer exists.
True or fake, The Bank Job is a brisk entertainment that doesn't need believability to work.
Brimming with satisfying twists and populated with colorful characters, this represents a Job well done.
A spiffy heist flick that spins a complicated web of crime and reveals the importance of secrets to the rich and the powerful.
Es como una película de Guy Ritchie pero sin toda esa parafernalia y sobre estetización que son su marca de fábrica.
A tall tale like this one needed to be sprightlier and cheekier; what we get is boring competence.
Donaldson's film, about a dangerous crime during a tumultuous time period, suffers from a filmmaker utterly uninterested in dangerous filmmaking.
Tunneling underground notwithstanding, a heist movie shouldn't feel this much like drudgery.
It's not the best heist flick, but it's fast, gritty, tense and includes a toffee-nosed British politician with a poncy accent putting on pink undies and an S&M collar while being beaten by hookers.
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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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