The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy

The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy
by Roger Donaldson

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Actor: Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore
Director: Roger Donaldson
Brand: Disney
Producer: Aaron Shuster
Producer: Alan Glazer
Producer: Alex Gartner
Producer: Charles Roven
Producer: Christopher Mapp
Writer: Dick Clement
Writer: Ian La Frenais
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lionsgate

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Movie Review: Director Donaldson Hold It Together Nicely
Summary: 4 Stars

THE BANK JOB is almost one of those guy action flicks that we blokes just love to beat our chests about. Seeing Jason Statham (Crank) as the main character certainly added to this assumption since he's a guy's guy when it comes to action films of late. Known mostly for his martial arts moves in The Transporter series, Statham has become synonymous with the tough guy image. And although The Bank Job has elements of Statham's toughness, it's not what makes this movie a very good flick to spend 111 minutes watching.

Most interesting is that the film is based on an actual London crime where a group of lowly criminals decide to move up to the big time by robbing a bank. Trouble is, it's all a ruse to get at some photos that the British government wants but can't get to. So MI-6 hires out the job ...supposedly without the knowledge of The Crown or the higher-ups in the legal system.

Terry Leather (Statham) is the unlucky soul who gets roped into doing the job by one-time flame Martine Love (Saffron Burrows, Fay Grim), an extremely attractive woman who's got an inside scoop on said banks security system shut down. When Terry and his crew finally do get inside and begin rifling through the contents of safety deposit boxes, they all think they're in hog-heaven. But once finished with the job, Britains elite to its scumbags come crawling around, looking for who stole their belongings, records, photos, and other miscellaneous items. Terry's team is in for some rough times. But can Terry get most of them out of it before it's too late?

Although no one really knows what happened to the bank robbers (other than they were probably jailed under assumed names), it is interesting to look at the history behind the robbery and see how involved England's legal system was in everything after the heist. None of the names of the criminals was ever released. Nor were their sentences. Nothing of their identities has ever been seen by the public, even though this was a public crime perpetrated against a public entity (a bank).

There's a lot going on in the story, too, so it's pretty convoluted but the story holds together exceptionally well. Director Roger Donaldson (The World's Fastest Indian) is to be commended for that; this thing could've got completely unwieldy, I'm sure.

Statham carries the film well on dramatic chops and not his normal action/martial arts ones. His overwhelming affection for his wife (Keeley Hawes, Death at a Funeral) is portrayed with just the right amount of tenderness and tough-love. His caring for his team is also well played, especially when they begin to disappear in not-so-pleasant ways.

All-in-all, this is a very well put together flick, with just the right doses of action and drama to make one enjoy every minute of it.

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Summary of The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy

Disney The Bank Job (Blu-ray) A small-time crook takeson a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry (Statham) finds himself deep into this real-life heist and quite suddenly the target of ruthless mobsters,the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family.

A cheerful, energetic, and completely entertaining movie, The Bank Job follows some small-time hoods who think they've lucked into a big-time opportunity 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 police, 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 bone-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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