the audience applauded

Lack of good storyline.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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+)

Movie Review: "The Bank Job" (2008)Releasing with Mini Major LionsGate Films in early 2008, "The Bank Job" directed by 1980s Hollywood-veteran Roger Donaldson starring Jason Statham as Terry Leather and match-making female lead Saffron Burrows; together they deliver a reconstruction of an famous bank heist from the year of 1971 at a bank on London's Baker Street, emptying the safe-deposit boxes of the rich and famous with jewelry, cash money and all dirty secrets that come along, which eventually brings heavy debris in shape of a gentlemen gangster people from London's underworld to the frontline, where main character Terry must go through with fist and gun, shot in elegant as accurate décor designed by Gavin Bocquet letting producers Charles Roven and Steven Chasman shine with a quality picture delivery for the ages, which holds up strong for everyone who appreciates a cleverly-structured plot close to Hitchcockian suspense excellence toward the very end embedded in a great no-dull-moments-given editorial of 105 minutes by eventually Academy-Award-winning editor John Gilbert.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

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.

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.