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The Bank Job
Criminal minded Terry leather tries to live a new life with his wife and kids but when his ex girlfriend brings an unresisting offer to pull a bank heist he gets thrown into a deadly web of corruption.
16 December 1980, Hull, Humberside, England, UK
October1962, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
7 December 1957, Selkirk, Scotland, UK
30 November 1979, London, England, UK
10 February 1958, Cranleigh, Surrey, England, UK
June 16, 2016
... a terrific piece of heist filmmaking made with a rough-and-tumble attitude and old-school professionalism.
January 05, 2012
The Bank Job is an often suspenseful and sleek crime movie which shows how a group of working class slumps exposed the scandalous nature of the rich, as both spooks and crims bay for their blood.
March 07, 2008
A tight, classic-feeling film about losers banding together for one big score, then scrambling furiously as they realize they're in over their heads. It's fast, nifty, sharp and sweet.
August 03, 2009
The Bank Job happily stole my attention
March 07, 2008
Longtime screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have woven a masterful narrative full of odd twists and dark humor from which Australian director Roger Donaldson and a prime cast mine plum characters and a tight plot to satisfying effect.
March 07, 2008
The Bank Job is nothing more than an efficient time-killer with the added bonus of being based on a real misadventure. But, unlike its benighted cast of characters, it gets the job done without a hitch.
March 07, 2008
With its cockneys and coppers and the caper that comes a cropper, the movie is fully engaging on several levels.
March 07, 2008
Thanks to the twin pens of screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, what a jam-packed and misanthropic fiction this is.
October 21, 2014
The Bank Job delivers much more than it's title claims.
February 02, 2009
The Bank Job is not just another slick caper film. It's robust, messy, cluttered, and a cut well above the average crime job.
March 07, 2008
It's something new for heist pictures: a movie that can't even rip off its predecessor with any panache.
September 25, 2010
As some characters brazenly assert colonial imperatives, race and class commentary abound and "The Bank Job" eventually takes a vividly violent turn. But its subtext of history's long con doesn't keep the film from hitting great-heist high points.
