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The Bank Job
It sounds like your run of the mill caper movie. It stars Jason Statham, which means that it could go either way. Yet that flick fell safely on the positive scale — nabbing itself a 78% fresh rating. Our Jeffrey M. Anderson said of the film: “The Bank Job doesn’t add anything new to the genre, but it delivers everything we loved about it in the first place.”

Statham plays a hustler in debt named Terry who is trying to even the playing field and go on with life in 1971. One day, an old friend and model (Saffron Burrows) pops by with a tasty, albeit illegal, proposition — there’s a bank that is getting its alarms changed, leaving it open

for a nice case of robbery. However, instead of taking the monetary goods, they’ll hit the safe deposit boxes. Terry does it, but ends up coming across a lot of dirty secrets that reach from the mob to the British government. Oh yes, and it’s a true-ish story.

On the 2-disc DVD, you can sift through a commentary with director Roger Donaldson, Saffron Burrows, and composer J. Peter Robinson, plus deleted/extended scenes, and a few featurettes — “Inside The Bank Job” and “The Baker Street Bank Raid.” The first tackles details about the film, while the other tackles the real crime for those curiosu about historical particulars.

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Original post by Monika Bartyzel