The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy

The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy
by Roger Donaldson

The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy
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Actor: Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore
Director: Roger Donaldson
Brand: Disney
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lionsgate

DVD Reviews of The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy

DVD Review: Well shaken. Not stirred!
Summary: 5 Stars

Heist movies are not per se an interesting genre. If they are too funny, see Ocean's 25, they are only mildly amusing if they have enough star appeal. If they are too technical, too focussed on the how, they tend to be boring (don't want to insult anyone with an example here). They need a good mixture of plot, people, and cinematography. And then to produce an interesting and lovable heist film based on a, well, real life story, that's remarkable.
The recipe only works if you like the criminals. You don't want them to be caught. Otherwise it doesn't work for you.
This one is a perfect example of British skills at making nice little gangster movies. You can't call it a comedy, like In Bruges, but it is very entertaining. On top of the bank job itself, you got royalty and blackmailing and MI5 (or 6?)and drug trade and Black Power and sex business and corrupt cops and perverts in government with a risk of yolk in their faces, and a 'tragic' lost love among the main heroes, and a good family father doing his best to earn his family's livelihood. You even got Lord Mountbatten in a tube station. What more can a bank robbery film offer?
An alround success for me.

DVD Review: Swinging Sixties with a little bank job
Summary: 4 Stars

Action man Jason Statham typecast here as a tough guy once more, aptly so this time, heads a team of amateurs and professionals in a wee little heist that would allow them to retire comfortably.

Except for one problem...actually it's quite a few. Apparently, scandalous photographs of utmost importance got stolen and they are of royal and political implications to this robbery.

Roger Donaldson does a fine job directing this tightly edited crime thriller. It could have been another nifty heist film, except that once the heist is over, that's where it gets more interesting. Half-way through the film, all sorts of double-crossing, skulduggery takes place, with each party with its own agenda trying procure what they want.

This Blu-Ray edition does a good job showing the warm colours of sixties London in its full monty. It does help that Donaldson recreated the setting and the atmosphere to stay true to its period.

DVD Review: The Bank Job
Summary: 5 Stars

Excellent movie a comedy mixed with drama and real events. Great cast headed by Jason Statham all likable villians.Well worth watching. I give it a 10 out of 10.

DVD Review: Not What I Expected...
Summary: 2 Stars

I thought this was going to have hard-core action, but I didn't know it was about stealing safety deposit boxes, and in one of the boxes, has pictures of a royal princess getting naked and getting gang-banged by some black guys! It was just alright. If it wasn't for Jason Statham being in it, I probably wouldn't have watched it. I wouldn't recommend THE BANK JOB!!!



DVD Review: The Dialect Gets A Lil' Old
Summary: 4 Stars

This was a good movie only because it starred Jason Statham! He's so brute forced and awesome! The UK voices got a little old while watching the movie.

Description of The Bank Job [Blu-ray] + Digital Copy

A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals Terry (Statham) finds himself deep into this real-life heist and quite suddenly the target of ruthless mobsters the police government officials at the highest level and even the royal family.System Requirements:Running Time: 110 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC:?031398236146 Manufacturer No:?23614
A cheerful, energetic, and completely entertaining movie, The Bank Job follows some small-time hoods who think they've lucked into a big-time opportunity when they learn a bank's security system will be temporarily suspended--little suspecting that they're being manipulated by government agents for their own ends. The result is that the movie doubles its pleasures: While the robbery itself has the usual suspense of a heist film, when the robbery is over the hoods find themselves being hunted by the police, the government, and brutal criminal kingpins who were storing dangerous information in a safety deposit box. The Bank Job won't win any awards, but it's enormously fun. Director Roger Donaldson (No Way Out, Species) propels the action along with vigor, editing zippily with perfect clarity among multiple storylines and various colorful characters. Jason Statham (Snatch, The Transporter), as the leader of the bank robbers, successfully steps away from his usual bone-crunching roles to a more human presence. The rest of the cast--including Saffron Burrows (Deep Blue Sea), Keeley Hawes (Tipping the Velvet), David Suchet (Poirot), and many faces familiar from British film and television--give their characters the right degree of personality and flavor without getting fussy or detracting from the headlong rush of the story. A little sex, a lot of action, a sly sense of humor, and a twisty plot; if more movies had these basic pleasures, the world would be a happier place. --Bret Fetzer

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