The Bank Job [2008]

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5060052415066 Format: PAL Label: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2008-06-30 Running Time: 107 Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Editorial Reviews: A cheerful, energetic, and completely entertaining movie, The Bank Job follows some small-time hoods who think they've lucked into a big-time opportunity when they learn a bank's security system will be temporarily suspended--little suspecting that they're being manipulated by government agents for their own ends. The result is that the movie doubles its pleasures: While the robbery itself has the usual suspense of a heist film, when the robbery is over the hoods find themselves being hunted by the police, the government, and brutal criminal kingpins who were storing dangerous information in a safety deposit box. The Bank Job won't win any awards, but it's enormously fun. Director Roger Donaldson (No Way Out, Species) propels the action along with vigour, zippy editing (with perfect clarity among multiple story-lines) and various colourful characters. Jason Statham (Snatch, The Transporter), as the leader of the bank robbers, successfully steps away from his usual bone-crunching roles to a more human presence. The rest of the cast--including Saffron Burrows (Deep Blue Sea), Keeley Hawes (Tipping the Velvet), David Suchet (Poirot), and many faces familiar from British film and television--give their characters the right degree of personality and flavour without getting fussy or detracting from the headlong rush of the story. A little sex, a lot of action, a sly sense of humour, and a twisty plot. If more movies had these basic pleasures, the world would be a happier place. --Bret Fetzer
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: an incredible but true plot Comment: Everything expected from a good British film is delivered. Tension, drama, believable characters and most incredible of all, based on a true story. You may need to watch it more than once to absorb the significance of the plot. Customer Rating: Summary: WHAT A FILM! Comment: THE BANK JOB starts out real lame. After about half an hour I was going to turn it off, but then the film really kicks into gear and becomes really good and suspensful. There's a lot of surprises and it really is a fun, humorous movie. The cast is GREAT with Jason Straham in the lead role. Customer Rating: Summary: Cockney geezers rob bank - true story! Comment: A decent British thriller, given some credibility with its `inspired by true story' tag. A strong cast play out the events of 1971 in London, when Saffron Burrows persuades a group of amateur thieves to tackle a big bank job. However, it turns out that the bank contains not just gold and jewellery, but photographs of an incriminating nature, and life becomes very complicated as the government, MI5, crime-lords and drug runners all take an unhealthy interest in catching the thieves. It plays more like a romp than a true story, but there are some brief harsh moments of violence along the way to remind you of the seedier sides of an Ocean's Eleven type endeavour. Performances are fairly good, even Jason Statham manages to invest some sort of emotion to his character, and Saffron Burrows seems to be improving with age. It all does veer towards clichéd Cockney gangsta movie at times, but gets away with it thanks to its veneer of credibility, and the end result is an interesting, exciting and even entertaining heist movie which is distinctly British. Customer Rating: Summary: A good british "gangsta" film Comment: A good film, based on a "true" story, with a good cast and a good plot. A typical british gangsta movie made on the story of a robbery "on behalf" of MI5. Not at level of Lock & Stock o The Snatch (just to remain on Statham) but a good movie, if you like this type of movies. Customer Rating: Summary: The Great Brain Robbery! Comment: It's a joke right? This film is funny and very laughable. Why? I hear you cry..........well,firstly, Jason Mr 'Wooden Actor' Statham is all swagger and fluffed lines with painted on designer stubble which did not exist in the '70s, painted on or otherwise and it doesn't look butch, just hilarious,he should have been wearing a striped shirt, a mask and a bag over his shoulder with 'swag' written on it!! The real comedy, in this Whitehall farce,(I was actually waiting for Brian Rix to show up then remembered he's dead but he was made a Lord as well very strange,he must be turning in his grave at this one),is the trouser dropping Lords of kink and the bare breasted women. Tittilation in a film does not make it any good!! I guess the actual real Bank Job itself was carried out a sight more professionally than the making of this film. I won't mention Saffron Burrows but her 'acting' should be a criminal offence in itself!!!! One for the bin in my view but feel free to slate my review!! More Reviews