an incredible but true plot
Everything expected from a good British film is delivered. Tension, drama, believable characters and most incredible of all, based on a true story. You may need to watch it more than once to absorb the significance of the plot.

WHAT A FILM!
THE BANK JOB starts out real lame. After about half an hour I was going to turn it off, but then the film really kicks into gear and becomes really good and suspensful. There's a lot of surprises and it really is a fun, humorous movie. The cast is GREAT with Jason Straham in the lead role.

Cockney geezers rob bank - true story!
A decent British thriller, given some credibility with its `inspired by true story' tag.
A strong cast play out the events of 1971 in London, when Saffron Burrows persuades a group of amateur thieves to tackle a big bank job. However, it turns out that the bank contains not just gold and jewellery, but photographs of an incriminating nature, and life becomes very complicated as the government, MI5, crime-lords and drug runners all take an unhealthy interest in catching the thieves.
It plays more like a romp than a true story, but there are some brief harsh moments of violence along the way to remind you of the seedier sides of an Ocean's Eleven type endeavour.
Performances are fairly good, even Jason Statham manages to invest some sort of emotion to his character, and Saffron Burrows seems to be improving with age. It all does veer towards clichéd Cockney gangsta movie at times, but gets away with it thanks to its veneer of credibility, and the end result is an interesting, exciting and even entertaining heist movie which is distinctly British.


A good british "gangsta" film
A good film, based on a "true" story, with a good cast and a good plot. A typical british gangsta movie made on the story of a robbery "on behalf" of MI5. Not at level of Lock & Stock o The Snatch (just to remain on Statham) but a good movie, if you like this type of movies.

The Great Brain Robbery!
It's a joke right?

This film is funny and very laughable.

Why? I hear you cry..........well,firstly, Jason Mr 'Wooden Actor' Statham is all swagger and fluffed lines with painted on designer stubble which did not exist in the '70s, painted on or otherwise and it doesn't look butch, just hilarious,he should have been wearing a striped shirt, a mask and a bag over his shoulder with 'swag' written on it!!

The real comedy, in this Whitehall farce,(I was actually waiting for Brian Rix to show up then remembered he's dead but he was made a Lord as well very strange,he must be turning in his grave at this one),is the trouser dropping Lords of kink and the bare breasted women.

Tittilation in a film does not make it any good!! I guess the actual real Bank Job itself was carried out a sight more professionally than the making of this film.

I won't mention Saffron Burrows but her 'acting' should be a criminal offence in itself!!!!

One for the bin in my view but feel free to slate my review!!

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