The Bank Job B

A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry (Jason Statham) has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine (Saffron Burrows), 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...the true story of a heist gone wrong...in all the right ways.

I sincerely hope I am not alone in my opinion that Jason Stathem has the talent to be a really amazing actor, the tidbits of that hope comes through in short glimmers of very good films (Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, the first Transporter, and more recently Revolver). "The Bank Job" thank god is not only one of those movies he shines in, this is the movie where he radiates like a beam of light.

This movie seems as though it was created for Jason Stathem, he is smart, Cavalier, and Bold while projecting an underlining conscious that proves him ashamed of his past and current criminal escapades. My Adrenalin was flowing from the beginning to the end of this movie, small gasp of horror and cringing pain were given over small amounts of violence that came across vividly due of the realism and knowledge that this all happened in the late 70's, that all of this amazing storytelling is based upon the true story of some very shady characters.

There is no love lost on any of these characters, these people, all of them are jaded criminals, but Jason Stathem and the rest of this movie makes it one hell of an enjoyable experience to root for them!

Rated "R" for Violence, and Language

See Also: The Italian Job, Boondock Saints, and Lock, Stock, and 2 smoking Barrels.