Product Description
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"Some names have been changed to protect the guilty." Such is
the cheeky spirit of THE BANK JOB, a solidly entertaining British
heist film based on England's famous walkie-talkie bank job. The
year is 1971 and Michael X-emerging black activist and budding
crime lord-has British authorities over a barrel after he gets
hold of sexually incriminating photos of royal Princess Margaret.
Desperate to recover the photos, the government pressures
troubled model Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) to recruit a team
and steal the bank safety deposit box containing the photos.
Martine promptly enlists small-time con man and old flame Terry
Leather (Jason Statham), luring him and his crew with the promise
of millions. Director: Roger Donaldson Star: Jason Statham,
Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - English Dolby
Digital 5.1 - Spanish Subtitles - English, Spanish Running Time:
110 minutes.
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A cheerful, energetic, and completely entertaining movie, The
Bank Job follows some small-time hoods who think they've lucked
into a big-time rtunity when they learn a bank's security
system will be temporarily suspended--little suspecting that
they're being manipulated by government agents for their own
ends. The result is that the movie doubles its pleasures: While
the robbery itself has the usual suspense of a heist film, when
the robbery is over the hoods find themselves being hunted by the
, the government, and brutal criminal kingpins who were
storing dangerous information in a safety deposit box. The Bank
Job won't win any awards, but it's enormously fun. Director Roger
Donaldson (No Way Out, Species) propels the action along with
vigor, editing zippily with perfect clarity among multiple
storylines and various colorful characters. Jason Statham
(Snatch, The Transporter), as the leader of the bank robbers,
successfully steps away from his usual -crunching roles to a
more human presence. The rest of the cast--including Saffron
Burrows (Deep Blue Sea), Keeley Hawes (Tipping the Velvet), David
Suchet (Poirot), and many faces familiar from British film and
television--give their characters the right degree of personality
and flavor without getting fussy or detracting from the headlong
rush of the story. A little sex, a lot of action, a sly sense of
humor, and a twisty plot; if more movies had these basic
pleasures, the world would be a happier place. --Bret Fetzer
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