The Bank Job

One of the pleasures of The Bank Job is that it returns us to the days when robbing a bank was a gritty, hole-in-the-wall affair.Read Full Review »

Entertaining and subtle at once, it doesn't just dazzle us with the hows and whys of a particularly wily brand of thievery; it transports us to a specific time and place that often seems to fall between significant eras. The Bank Job is set in a country that's in transition, an extended metaphor for the way its characters are in transition, too.Read Full Review »

A heist movie in the classic tradition - it details every aspect of the caper, from its genesis to its aftermath. The fact that there's political intrigue and espionage swirling around the edges only makes it more fascinating.Read Full Review »

Feels both absolutely of the 1970s and absolutely fresh.Read Full Review »

Imagine a blend of "Snatch," "Ocean's 11" and "The Italian Job." Then juxtapose the staples of the caper genre with real events involving national security and high-level corruption, and the result is The Bank Job.Read Full Review »

Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that's full of surprises I have no intention of spoiling.Read Full Review »

There is not a lot of scintillating dialogue in The Bank Job, but there are plenty of kinky sexual allusions and it includes a torture sequence about as brutal as anything you're likely to see in the movies these days.Read Full Review »

The film dawdles at times. but for the most part Donaldson keeps just the right amount of tension present in each scene.Read Full Review »

What makes director Roger Donaldson's movie greater than zany heist fare is that this particular robbery really happened and that this episode illuminated an almost moral clash between the haves and the have-nots of Great Britain.Read Full Review »

The workmanlike title The Bank Job is a nice fit for this wham-bam caper flick.Read Full Review »