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The Bank Job (2008)

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Reviews Counted:30

Fresh:27

Rotten:3

Average Rating:7.1/10

Consensus: Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller.

Australian Rating: MA15+ [See Full Rating] Strong coarse language and sexual references

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

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... 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 corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England.

A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry (Statham) has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine (Burrows), a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself...the true story of a heist gone wrong...in all the right ways.

Directed by Roger Donaldson (No Way Out, Thirteen Days, The Recruit) and written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (Across The Universe, Flushed Away), produced by Steven Chasman (Transporter 2) and Charles Roven (Get Smart, The Dark Knight); executive producers are George McIndoe, Ryan Kavanaugh, Alan Glazer and Christopher Mapp. THE BANK JOB also stars Richard Lintern (Syriana), Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys), Daniel Mays (Atonement), Peter Bowles (Freebird), Keeley Hawes (A Cock and Bull Story), Colin Salmon (Die Another Day, Punisher: War Zone), Peter de Jersey (TV's "Holby City"), James Faulkner (Colour Me Kubrick), Sharon Maughan (Another Stakeout), Alki David (The Freediver), Michael Jibson (Flyboys), Georgia Taylor (TV's "Coronation Street") and three-time Bafta® nominee David Suchet (TV's "Poirot"). --© Lionsgate
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Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, David Suchet

Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, David Suchet, Keeley Hawes

Director: Roger Donaldson

Director: Roger Donaldson
Screenwriter: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
Producer: Steven Chasman, Charles Roven
Composer: J. Peter Robinson
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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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.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment 1 Comment
07/25/08
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
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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.

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07/25/08
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
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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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment 1 Comment
03/07/08
Kevin Crust
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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The workmanlike title The Bank Job is a nice fit for this wham-bam caper flick.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
03/07/08
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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No worse than its generic title. And no better.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
03/07/08
Jim Emerson
Jim Emerson
Chicago Sun-Times
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The Bank Job engages us fully with a tale that's well-fashioned more than anything else, a fascinating study of morality at several levels of English society, and of honor, or the lack of it, among implausibly likable thieves.

Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | comment Comment
03/07/08
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Well-paced, smartly told and unpretentious, this solid British heist thriller also has moments of invention and imagination

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
03/07/08
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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What makes director Roger Donaldson's movie greater than zany heist fare is that this particular robbery really happened and that this episode illuminated an almost moral clash between the haves and the have-nots of Great Britain.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
03/06/08
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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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.

Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment 1 Comment
03/03/08
David Denby
David Denby
New Yorker
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Terrific film. Quite a surprise.

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03/03/08
Richard Roeper
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An engrossing if underwhelming period thriller.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
02/28/08
Leslie Felperin
Leslie Felperin
Variety
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Despite a good premise, this is oddly uninvoling -- culminating in a real disappointment.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
02/28/08
Chris Hewitt (UK)
Chris Hewitt (UK)
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