The Bank Job (2008)

Crappy film

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Martine offers Terry a lead on a bank hit on London's Baker Street. She 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. The Bank Job is one of Jason Statham's most different films that he has made in the last decade but also one of his best as well. Full of suspense, great acting and twists and turns along the way that fans of heist movies should not miss at all. (10/10) (A+)

Wow! Based on the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery, the high profile contents with royal connections make this film, not just an ordinary bank robbery!I much prefer Jason Statham in his earlier British roles, before the action man stays appeared and a great cast to go along side. Attracting attention from every corner, this is a great British film that I recommend to see

The Bank Job maybe Jason Statham's best movie (excluding his role in the first Expendables movie) I really enjoyed it it is not your usual Statham movie. Plot In A Paragraph: Based on a true story Martine (Saffron Burrows) offers Terry (Statham) a tip on a foolproof bank job on London's Baker Street branch of Lloyds bank. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewellery. But Terry and his crew don't realise the boxes also contain a lot of dirty secrets - secrets that will endanger the lives of everyone involved. It does get bogged down with too many subplots in its short running time and there are some awful attempt to cockney accents. However these are only a minor flaws in an entertaining movie.In its edition of February 16, 2008 The Daily Mail newspaper reported "The four men caught, charged and convicted of the raid went to jail without ever having their names mentioned in the press, and to this day their identities and the circumstances of their capture remain secret. Even the lengths of their sentences are still shrouded in mystery."

Scripted with a light touch by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and directed with considerable verve by Roger Donaldson, The Bank Job is a combination of heist movie and conspiracy thriller. It's a speculative account of what lay behind the actual robbery in 1971 of a branch of Lloyds Bank in London's Baker Street. Amazingly, a radio ham recorded the thieves' walkie-talkie conversation while they worked and alerted the cops, but no one was brought to justice.This was just a year before Watergate and the film's producers claim that whereas the Washington break-in opened the greatest can of worms of the 20th century, the scandal the London robbery would have revealed was squashed by the government issuing a D notice in the interests of national security.A case of life imitating art, the robbers borrowed their plan from Baker Street's most famous resident; Sherlock Holmes's tale 'The Red-Headed League' details how thieves tunnel into a bank vault from a shop down the street. The sympathetic minor villains, led by Jason Statham, have been conned into this caper by a beautiful model with underworld connections (Saffron Burrows), who's being blackmailed by the security- service people.She's after a safety-deposit box containing compromising photographs of a British princess having sex with a couple of black studs in the Caribbean. The pictures are being used by evil Black Power charlatan Michael X, respected friend of John Lennon and Yoko One, seen here dining with him, for blackmail purposes to keep the law at bay. But after a successful heist, the crooks discover that in addition to money and jewelry, they also have the account book of a Soho vice king (David Suchet) recording his bribes to the cops and compromising photographs of toffs, civil servants and politicians from the deposit box of a fashionable brothel-owner.So the hapless crooks are pursued by MI5, the Special Branch, ruthless gangsters, bent bogeys, a single honest cop (the one good apple in the Met's barrel) and the royal family in the form of a benign Mountbatten. The film races along with the speed of a bullet train, catches the 1960s ethos just as it had gone totally rancid and is a great deal of ugly, subversive fun.