Wednesday 12 March 2008

The Bank Job

Cast
Jason Statham
Saffron Burrows
Stephen Campbell Moore
Daniel Mays
James Faulkner
Alki David
Michael Jibson
Richard Lintern
Don Gallagher
David Suchet
Craig Fairbrass
Keeley Hawes
Peter Bowles
Colin Salmon
Alistair Petrie
Georgia Taylor
Screenwriters
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais
Director
Roger Donaldson
Running Time
111 minutes

A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine, a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe-deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets--secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself. This is the true story of a heist gone wrong in all the right ways. (Lionsgate)

Not very good. Unoriginal, dull and messily told.