The true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.
| Cast |
Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David, Michael Jibson, Georgia Taylor, Richard Lintern |
| Director |
Roger Donaldson |
| Screenplay | Dick Clement, Ian la Frenais |
| Music | J. Peter Robinson |
| Cinematography | Michael Coulter |
| Editing | John Gilbert |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, DTS |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | Arclight Films, Mosaic Media Group, Omnilab, Relativity Media, Skyline (Baker St) |
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| Genre | Crime, thriller |
| Language | Strong, frequent |
| Nudity | Strong |
| Sex | Strong |
| Violence | Strongish |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Tense realistic crime drama. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Sonette Lombaard | 10 | |
| Cape Times Michael Phillips | 10 | |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman | 18 |  |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 15 | |
| BBC Paul Adrendt  Another lump of flotsam from the ebbing tide of dodgy British gangster flicks. | 10 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson The Bank Job remains an unusually lively showcase of Brits behaving badly. | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli The Bank Job is smart, well-paced, exciting entertainment for adults - something that is more of a rarity than it should be. | 15 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that's full of surprises. | 15 | |
| ScreenItCertainly not for the kids, the film is a decent, adult-oriented throwback to heist films of old, where viewers get caught up in the proceedings, watching the thieves ending up in over their heads and trying to squirm or manipulate their way out of that. | 12 |  |
| Metacritic.com 32 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 129 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller. | 16 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 18776 Netizens | 15 | |
Average .. 66% | 13 | |