The Bank Job (2008)

Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry along with a treasure trove of dirty secrets.

Director:

Roger Donaldson

Writers:

Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais

Stars:

Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Statham	...	Terry Leather
Saffron Burrows	...	Martine Love
Stephen Campbell Moore	...	Kevin Swain
Daniel Mays	...	Dave Shilling
James Faulkner	...	Guy Singer
Alki David	...	Bambas
Michael Jibson	...	Eddie Burton
Georgia Taylor	...	Ingrid Burton
Richard Lintern	...	Tim Everett
Peter Bowles	...	Miles Urquart
Alistair Petrie	...	Philip Lisle
Hattie Morahan	...	Gale Benson
Julian Lewis Jones	...	Snow
Andrew Brooke	...	Quinn
Rupert Frazer	...	Lord Drysdale (as Rupert Fraser)

Storyline

Business is slow for Terry Leather, a London car dealer, married with children. He's an artful dodger, so Martine, a former model with a thing for him, brings him her scheme: a bank's alarm is off for a couple weeks, so let's tunnel into the vault. He assembles a team, not realizing her real goal is a safe-deposit box with compromising photos of a royal: she needs the photos to trade for avoiding a jail sentence - and MI-5, or is it MI-6, is pulling the strings two steps removed. A Trinidadian thug, a high-end bordello owner, and a pornographer also have things stored in the vault, so the break-in threatens many a powerful personage. Is there any way these amateurs can pull it off?

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Plot Keywords:

safe deposit | heist | chase | mobster | london england | 

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Taglines:

Based on a true story

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Did You Know?

Trivia

Scotland Yard considered charging the ham radio operator, who recorded the walkie-talkie conversations between the bank robbers, with illegally listening to their transmissions, but no such charge was filed. Lloyds Bank, however, paid him a reward of £2,500.

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Goofs

By 1971, almost all new cars in Britain were delivered with reflective white / yellow plates (introduced in 1966). So it would be very odd to see silver on black plates on a nearly new car (such as the Triumph driven by the MI6 agents).

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Quotes

[first lines]
Eddie Burton: [while drilling a mileage meter back] Another Terry Leather low mileage gem.

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Crazy Credits

Disclaimer: "The names of many people identified in this film have been changed to protect the guilty."

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Connections

References Shifty (2008)

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Soundtracks

Save Me
Written by Steve Balsamo (as S. Balsamo), Andy Collins (as A. Collins),
Dai Smith (as D. Smith), Rob Thompson (as R. Thompson)
Performed by The Storys
Published by Copyright Control/PRS-MCPS
(p) 2005 Hall Recordings
Courtesy of Warner Records
John Waller Management
www.thestorys.co.uk

User Reviews

A Great Surprise

In 1971, the criminal Michael X (Peter De Jersey) blackmails the British government with compromising photos of members of the parliament practicing kinky sex with prostitutes. He keeps the photos in a safe deposit box in the Lloyds Bank in the Baker Street.

The ambitious MI-5 Federal Agent Tim Everett (Richard Lintern) plots a bold plan to retrieve the pictures using a heist of the bank. He arrests the former model Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) in the airport trafficking drugs and offers security information to her to facilitate to rob of the bank.In return, he requests the content of the safe box no. 118 that belongs to Michael X.

Martine goes to East London and meets her former lover, the car dealer Terry Leather (Jason Statham) that is married with two daughters but owes money to a dangerous loan shark, and tells him that the bank's alarm will be deactivated during a few days. Terry summons his friends and the team of amateurs succeeds in the heist. However, together with the money, the gang also steels the photos of Michael X; the book with the transactions with dirty cops of the Scotland Yard of the pornographer Lew Vogel (David Suchet); and photos of politicians in the Sonia Bern's brothel. Now different groups organize a manhunt to Terry and his friends with different objectives, where the stolen money is the less important.

"The Bank Job" was the great surprise of this week, with a good story based on true events. I bought this Blu Ray a long time ago but my expectations were very low. However this film is one of the best movies of bank heist that I have ever seen. In the end, the thieves are the most charismatic characters among such corruptors and unethical people. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Efeito Dominó" ("Domino Effect")

Details

Official Sites:

Lionsgate [UK] Lionsgate [United States]

Country:

UK USA Australia

Language:

English Latin

Release Date:

7 March 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Bank Job

Filming Locations:

Chatham Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$5,935,256, 9 March 2008

Gross USA:

$30,060,660

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$64,828,421

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mosaic, Relativity Media, Omnilab Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

111 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1