Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

cinemajesty 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)

KingBrian1 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.

tomsview As far as crime caper movies go, this is right up there with the best.The film has the added conviction that often comes with stories based on real events such as "The French Connection" and "Munich" to name a couple. The story takes place in 1970. A gangster, Michael X (Peter de Jersey) has some compromising photographs of a member of the royal family. He uses these as insurance against prosecution for his crimes. Tim Everett (Richard Lintern) of MI5 is ordered to get the negatives, but he is told to use unorthodox means so as not to incriminate the government. Through Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), a woman Everett has rescued from a drugs charge, a small-time criminal, Terry Leather (Jason Statham), is brought in to do the robbery. This entails tunnelling beneath two shops to get to the bank. Terry pulls together a team including a tunnelling expert. The icing on the cake in "The Bank Job" is the bank job itself. The robbery sequence is long, full of detail, and packed with tension. The film was directed by Roger Donaldson who had remade "The Getaway". Although Alec Baldwin didn't eclipse Steve McQueen in that effort, Donaldson's action sequences, which included a similar robbery, were a notch above Peckinpah's. Donaldson can also handle intense human drama as he proves here and in films such as the brilliant "The Bounty". The story is full of lewd lords and crooked cops, and the plot twists in all directions as other characters are drawn in whose secrets have also been exposed. Although the film starts with a light touch it becomes progressively darker as retribution comes from all directions. One of the aggrieved is brothel owner Lew Vogel (David Suchet) who makes a point that sums up a lot of the characters in the film. As his associates are about to work over one of Terry's friends with what looks like a sand blaster, he says, "I have a very jaundiced view of life. From what I see most of it is corrupt, venal and vile, and I'm just saying this so you know that I don't have a better nature to appeal to or a compassionate streak"."The Bank Job" has a great cast. Jason Statham is perfect as Terry and Saffron Burrows adds class to any movie she is in. This is definitely one of Roger Donaldson's best. He and the cast created believable characters in a movie that is absorbing from start to finish.

ADF When money spoils a good story.I know little about screenplay or script writing despite being on the fringe of TV and film production for six years but I do recall how financiers were more concerned with ensuring a profit than they were with the story. I mean the story is the whole point of it, isn't it? Sell them on the story and offer them good actors and direction to loosen the purse strings. More than once though they interfered at the eleventh hour and what would have been a gem was turned to mud instead.I watched The Bank Job with Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows. From my own very small involvement in its production I know that it was a film based on fact, so I was disappointed that the films financiers felt they had to completely alter those facts. The matter is no longer buried by the Official Secrets Act so they have no excuse. Robbing a bank to save Princess Margaret's reputation gave them a chance to throw a bit of sex and scandal in, but the real story was that in one of those safety deposit boxes was a Cold War intelligence coup so great that once handed to the authorities by the robbers, not only was all the evidence against the gang quietly destroyed but so were their previous criminal records AND they were allowed to keep everything else they had stolen. The investigation carried on (in name only) so as not to tip off the Russians.I think I know which would have made the better film and I am pretty sure the writers, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais ('Porridge' : 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' : 'Lovejoy') knew it too. Once again the money men got it wrong.They were filming Jason's garage in Southwark, beside the Thames a stones throw from the old Fire Station used in 'London's Burning' Ironically only the location manager and myself knew that they were making a movie about tunneling to commit a robbery of a million or so pounds and they were in reality stood quite literally fifty feet above two billion in gold as the location was across the narrow road from what was back then a massive covert vault.From time to time local residents may object to the presence of a film unit but this was the only one where one used a forklift truck to attack the portable generator.