The Bank Job (2008)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 112 | Rotten: 30
Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 5
Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller.
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Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows star in director Roger Donaldson's cinematic account of the true-life 1971 London bank robbery that baffled the authorities and fascinated the public. Terry Leather (Statham) was a small-time car dealer who was trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Though he'd never been involved in any major crimes, he wasn't exactly on the straight and narrow his whole life either. Martine Love (Burrows) is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighborhood
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Jason Statham
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Saffron Burrows
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Stephen Campbell Moore
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Daniel Mays
Dave Shilling -
James Faulkner
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Alki David
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Michael Jibson
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Richard Lintern
Tim Everett -
Don Gallagher
Gerlad Pyke -
David Suchet
Lew Vogel -
Peter De Jersey
Michael X -
Hattie Morahan
Gale Benson -
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All Critics (142) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (119) | Rotten (30) | DVD (12)
It's something new for heist pictures: a movie that can't even rip off its predecessor with any panache.
Top CriticThe Bank Job is nothing more than an efficient time-killer with the added bonus of being based on a real misadventure. But, unlike its benighted cast of characters, it gets the job done without a hitch.
A tight, classic-feeling film about losers banding together for one big score, then scrambling furiously as they realize they're in over their heads. It's fast, nifty, sharp and sweet.
Thanks to the twin pens of screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, what a jam-packed and misanthropic fiction this is.
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.
With its cockneys and coppers and the caper that comes a cropper, the movie is fully engaging on several levels.
The Bank Job is an often suspenseful and sleek crime movie which shows how a group of working class slumps exposed the scandalous nature of the rich, as both spooks and crims bay for their blood.
As some characters brazenly assert colonial imperatives, race and class commentary abound and "The Bank Job" eventually takes a vividly violent turn. But its subtext of history's long con doesn't keep the film from hitting great-heist high points.
The Bank Job happily stole my attention
The Bank Job is not just another slick caper film. It's robust, messy, cluttered, and a cut well above the average crime job.
Es como una película de Guy Ritchie pero sin toda esa parafernalia y sobre estetización que son su marca de fábrica.
harientizomeno me amfisbitisimo goysto kai prospoiiti aythadeia me ta anomaliarika goysta tis agglikis afrokremas tis epohis, adynatei na dosei megethos sto terastion diastaseon politiko skandalo poy aggizei (oysiastika megethoys Watergate gia tin basilik
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.
Despite the name of the movie, this is not the typical mindless action b-movie that Jason Statham specializes in. It is much more an exploration of British corruption, sexual and otherwise, at the highest levels of 1960s British society. Not a great movie
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.
This is ultimately great entertainment in the tradition of classic heist films.
... by turns funny and suspenseful, and just a tad trashy in its speculations.
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.
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.
Caper movie mixes clichés, brutal violence.
Audience Reviews for The Bank Job
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- Lew Vogel: I have a very jaundice view of life, from what I see most of it is corrupt, venile, and vile.
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- Lew Vogel: I think drugs are responsible for the moral decay of this country's young. Smut, smut, and more smut - that's my special area of interest.
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- Dave Shilling: Be lucky!
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Foreign Titles
- Bank Job (DE)
