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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 CriticThe Bank Job happily stole my attention
All filmmakers have to do is slap together a semi-complex plan, cast the film with somewhat likable characters and tie it together with a punchy soundtrack, and I'm hooked.
...a movie that's edgy and even darkly humorous at times, and definitely worth a trip to the theater.
Rote situations, wooden dialogue, and Jason Statham.
Unlike the many heist movies obsessed with high-tech gadgetry and beyond-human stunts, The Bank Job, in more ways than one, gets down and dirty.
The Bank Job is smart, and it's exciting, and it's fun at the same time.
True or fake, The Bank Job is a brisk entertainment that doesn't need believability to work.
It gets right the twists, the humor, the tension, the sexiness and, yes, the violence of a really fun, taut British thriller.
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.
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.
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.
It makes the Ocean's films look like child's play -- or spoiled brat's play. The Bank Job is the best film of its kind since The Italian Job.
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.
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.
Stylish direction from Roger Donaldson and British understatement balance the tension with sly and often-outrageous humor.
It's something new for heist pictures: a movie that can't even rip off its predecessor with any panache.
Acting and directing are consistently high caliber, but relatively de rigeur for the lot.
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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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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