Review: The Bank Job (2008)

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If you are look­ing for the typ­i­cal Jason Statham movie, you are not going to find it here. The film is based on real events, and while I am sure cre­ative license played its part, you won’t find the sort of out­landish action you would expect from Crank or the Trans­porter series. Terry Leather is a more seri­ous role for Statham, and if you pay close atten­tion to the scenes where he inter­acts with his character’s wife Wendy (Kee­ley Hawes), you will see that Statham does have more poten­tial than many of his pre­vi­ous roles depict.

The film starts a bit slow, but after the first 20 – 30 min­utes it does begin to pick up. While I did enjoy “The Bank Job”, I am glad I rented it rather than see­ing it in the the­ater. It was enter­tain­ing, but did not have the “pop” I would expect for the price of admission.

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The Big Screener Movie Pro­file: The Bank Job (2008)

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