The Bank Job comes to theaters on March 7th, 2008 and a high-quality trailer is now available on Yahoo.com.
I hadn’t heard of this movie until this week and now I’m kind of intrigued by it. It stars Jason Statham, who has been in some of my favorite movies, like The Italian Job, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. You also get Saffron Burrows, who was in Troy and one of my guilty-pleasures, Deep Blue Sea.
The plot of the movie from IMDB looks like this:
Based on the true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery which was prevented from being told for over thirty years because of a Government gagging order. The real story of how one of the biggest robberies in British history took place with no arrests ever made nor money ever recovered.
In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London’s Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth over three million pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared – the result of a ‘D’ Notice, gagging the press. This film reveals what was hidden for the first time. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family – a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved.
The trailer looks pretty good and the story seems downright cool. I love these crime capers, especially where a big bank heist is pulled off with shrewdness and cunning. If you ever saw Clive Owen and Inside Man, you know what I’m talking about.
The poster below is pretty slick. It doesn’t really show much of what the movie is about, but it’s got a great old school feel to it.
Be sure to check out the trailer over at Yahoo.com.
(Click on the photo for the full-sized version)
So youre saying in real life you would vote and cheer for the thieves because it was schrewd and cunning and bold?
Of course
Sweet poster–very 70s retro.
I was going to write about this… Mike did it again.
Yeah, that poster is pretty retro. It looks like someone left it out in the sun too long.
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Jason, that’s all we do my friend…that’s what comes from seeming to have the same taste on things
We did it as well with The Road and Charlize Theron
I dont see Jason writing about the Queen…. =)
I’m going to pick that as my #1 film from 2007 if you keep it up
[...] Richard Roeper and guest host Michael Phillips (who I really do like) both loved The Bank Job and called it one of the best crime capers in the past [...]
Very cool poster – as for the movie itself? Eh, I give it a 6 out of 10. It was entertaining but a little too predictable.