The Bank Job

Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows star in director Roger Donaldson's cinematic account of the true-life 1971 London bank robbery that baffled the authorities and fascinated the public. Terry Leather (Statham) was a small-time car dealer who was trying to leave his shady past behind and start a ...more

Heist movies are a static, and even stale, genre. The best plots have already been written (with members of the French New Wave movement achieving the task best) or remade, and the style has decreased in popularity and volume over the past decade. Antithetically, The Bank Job employs a swift pace and a web of twists to remain interesting from stem to stern. It's essentially a political thriller masked as a bank robbery flick, and it’s based on a true story. The crime caper is set in ‘70s ...more