DVD Review: ‘The Bank Job’

Ram Man:

If you weren’t able to catch the Bank Job at the cinema earlier this year, your in luck, it hits the video shelves on Tuesday! Roger Donaldson has assembled a fine cast featuring Jason Statham (Transporter), Saffron Burrows (Troy) and James Faulkner (Hitman) to tell the tale of one of the greatest robberies of all time.

It’s 1971 in London. The music, the clothing and the times are changing. A drug lord who claims to be related to Malcolm X calls himself Micheal X (Peter De Jersey) is running rampant in London. He holds incriminating photos of some of England’s royal family that makes him untouchable. So MI6 (yes they are a real organization..but Tom Cruise isn’t a member) hires some local thieves to rob the bank and retrieve the photos in order to arrest Micheal X. Terry Leather (Statham) and Martina Love lead a rag tag team of criminals who not only retrieve the photos but also land about 4 million dollars in cash and jewels. Now the team has the police and virtually every criminal in London after them.

The Bank Job is a very entertaining film based on actual events that happened in the early 70’s in London. There are twists and lots of intrigue. The DVD special features include a “making of” documentary and an actual account of the real robbery that the film is based on. There are deleted and extended scenes that include a love scene between Statham and Burrows that hit the cutting room floor! Rent the Bank Job, its a steal for a night of great entertainment!

Check out WAMG original review here!

[rating: 3.5/5]