The Bank Job (2008)

A top-notch script, coupled with an excellent cast and great directing makes the most of this factually based film.Gripping from the start, it continues weaving its complex web of corruption in early 1970's London right through to the end.The excellent script from Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais just goes to show they should do more film scripts. The perfect balance between a gritty thriller and the occasional lighthearted comment or moment.It's rare to find such a well crafted heist movie that doesn't rely on superficial gloss. Hollywood should take note.A cracking film that's well worth your time.

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."

British Bank heist movie. The English are good at making these sorts of movies. The use of actors and actresses who are British or English is an asset to the film. Their dialects, lingo colloquial made it authentic and believable. Decent film about events in 70's Britain. I have doubts about truth as a lot of the film seems more about generating atmosphere about what life was like back then. The one problem with this film is does it pass the truth test in the process of making it. A lot was fictionalized to make it a good movie. I for one like the whole drilling under the buildings to get into the bank and the behaviour of the police. Other aspects I find difficult to believe ever happened. Still like it though.

Terry Leather (Jason Statham) is a struggling petty criminal. Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) has a proposal to rob a bank breaking into the safety deposit boxes. Martine had been pinched for smuggling drugs, and the MI5 or MI6 is using her to get at a deposit box. They're after Michael X who is a black activist, drug smuggler and general disruptive element. The only problem is that he is blackmailing the government with embarrassing photos of a royal family member in the deposit box. Terry doesn't know about the photos. When the gang breaks into the boxes, they find other embarrassing photos of prominent politicians, incriminating ledgers of big criminals, and lots of loot. Now everybody is after them.I don't know how much if any of this is true. All I know is that it doesn't really matter for the movie. The actual robbery is fun. The aftermath is quite complicated. It doesn't go into the flashy realm of the Oceans movies. The only minor complaint is the ending that is a little too neat. Somebody got overtime neatly pulling all the loose threads to wrap up at the same time. It's really unnecessary. A messy ending could have worked better.