this film is boring and Tilly made us watch it, i want to be a crusader and go to the holy lands. this film is boring and Tilly made us watch it, i want to be a crusader and go to the holy lands. this film is boring and Tilly made us watch it, i want to be a crusader and go to the holy lands. this film is boring and Tilly made us watch it, i want to be a crusader and go to the holy lands. this film is boring and Tilly made us watch it, i want to be a crusader and go to the holy lands.

This is one of Jason Statham's best films. When watching this film, you will really enjoy it. There was not a dull moment from start to finish. Staham is highly underrated and should be in the top ten of male actors. The fact that the movie was based on factual events makes it the more enjoyable. After watching this movie you will want to go back and follow his career movies and wonder why he has not received more credit for being such a great actor. Put this in your movies to watch at least once a year and you will really enjoy it each time. The British really know how to make moving pictures, in my opinion they really out rank the American ones, and I am an American.

While watching The Bank Job (2008) by Roger Donaldson I could not help thinking how much it felt like a Guy Ritchie's movie, the best that he did not direct. The Bank Job is fast, smart, and so well made that I can only agree with Richard Rupert of At the Movies with Ebert& Rupert, "The most entertaining heist movie I've seen in years". It is based on the true story of the Baker Street robbery that involved a robbery of the safe deposit boxes at a branch of Lloyds Bank on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road, London, and the following political scandal that the content of some of the boxes might have caused. The robbers were never arrested, and the cash, jewelry and the documents were never recovered. I am not sure how much truth is in the film but it works fine recreating the atmosphere of the 1970s with its political corruption, sex scandals that link to the highest circles, and the police incompetence.I mentioned Guy Ritchie above, and it seems that the colorful characters from the different layers of society that inhabited London in The Bank Job might have come directly from his early movies. The most decent and sympathetic turned to be the petty thieves led by Terry Leather (the role fits Jason Statham like a glove) while the owners of the stolen safe deposit boxes are mostly corrupt and despicable. Among them the members of the parliament who like to visit the fashionable London brothel, the leader of Black Power organization who keeps the compromising pictures of a member of British Royal Family in the coveted deposit box 118, and the porn-king of Soho (David Suchet) who makes the note of his every payment to the bent cops of London in the special book. Sushet, known to millions as a master of gray cells, the world famous Hercule Poirot, is here on the other side of the law. Perhaps, you won't remember this movie for its outstanding photography and spectacular scenery but as far as the level of entertainment and thrills goes, it is certainly a hit. And the big one.

No exaggeration. The box described the movie as based on a true story which took place in 1970's Britain about some small-time crooks who are lured into robbing a bank's safe deposit box, unaware that they are pawns in a government plot to remove sexually compromising photographs involving a member of the Royal Family. Intriguing premise, right?Okay, the film starts out showing brief nude scenes which we later learn are what had been in said photographs. Then we learn of the conspiracy plot, and how the small-time crooks are found and lured in without their knowledge. There is also an irrelevant subplot about a black man having sex with a white woman, evidently as some sort of 1970's political statement. But then comes a scene where the crooks go to a strip club, then a brothel, and we see lots and lots of bare breasts and buttocks and the crooks get bound in leather and chains for S&M.We turned it off at that point. We were expecting a story about crime and conspiracy, but the movie clearly entered gratuitous sexuality territory. It's one thing to be suggestive and another to be outright pornographic. If you want a bank heist movie, there are plenty of infinitely better choices, and if you want porn, well, there's no shortage of that on the Internet.