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) |
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? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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")