The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy

The Bank Job is one great film. Based upon true facts. Perfect Crime Film. Loved it and have watched twice.

Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows definitely make the movie. A great heist movie wherein you want the crooks to get over, mostly because of their savvy and vulnerability. The movie has a great plot and some surprises. It can be a little bloody toward the end, but without that, it wouldn't be as substantive. Recommended.

A pornographer and political radical have some lude pictures of Princess Maragaret and using them to blackmail the crown. They are held in a safe deposit box in a bank. The spooks use a beautiful woman with a criminal past to recruit some low-level thieves to break into the bank and rifle the safe-deposit box vault, only they can't know what the real objective is.

This is not your typical adrenaline-fueled Jason Statham, car-chase pic. There is some action, lots of intrigue, and a bit of romance. It's a fun yet serious caper movie with several plot twists to keep you interested along the way.

"The Bank Job" is an adrenaline rush from start to finish. Generally these type of films don't work for me because the capers themselves aren't really that interesting. This film, however, brought to my mind such classics of the genre as John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" and Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing". I think the reason for that is the aftermath of the heist is the most interesting aspect of the film where interested parties other than the police, such as the underworld and the Crown, try to nab the culprits. This film is also a step forward for Jason Statham. Statham, the unofficial king of the Labor Day weekend movie dump (see "Crank" and "War"), gets to work with a prestige director like Roger Donaldson here and carries the film in glorious fashion. For those who don't mind a little rough stuff this flick is not to be missed.

Jason Statham got an excellent part in this one. I thought it was a very good movie. The fact that it was based on a true story added to the heist being an intense one. If your attention started to lag (it did not) Saffron Burrows was there to pick it up. If you like Statham, buy it. If you don't, rent it. Definitely worth your time.