The Bank Job

If you like heists, spies, sex, violence, a retro feel, the Royals, London, and not forgetting big money, this movie will fill the bill. Well, today I'm going to review about 'The Bank Job'. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the setting of this movie is actually around 1971. It is based on a true story and revisits the mysterious whos and speculatives hows of a London vault cleanout on Baker Street labeled the walkie-talkie robbery.

Well, everything starts off in the Caribbean where a member of the Royal family or known as the 'Princess' is having a sex relationship with a few black guys and caught in compromising photos. A black militant named Micheal X (Peter de Jersey) uses the photos to avoid trouble with the M15. This is where everything starts, Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), a beautiful young woman who is in a quite sticky problem was sent by the M15 to retrieve the photos back from Micheal X who had deposited it in a safety vault in a bank in London. She went back to her old neighbourhood and manage to meet up with Terry (Jason Statham) who is a father of two daughters and owns a sales garage.

Martine told Terry about a bank that had to shutdown it's safety alarms due to some problems and she had targetted the safety deposit vault which contains millions and jewelleries. She didn't actually tell him the actual plan of getting the photos. Terry who was so extremely excited starts to gather his petty-criminal friends in order to execute the plan. Well, his friends aren't actually trained to be a criminal or should I say a bank-robber, they are more known as a pornstar, a fashion photographer and the watchout doesn't know how to use the walkie-talkie properly. They starts off by taking pictures of the bank and surroundings, look at the plans, and starts to brainstorm on how to break into the vault without the outside world noticing. They had manage to come up with an idea where they had to create an underground tunnel from a neighbouring shop and hit the vault from under.

They started to work digging their way to the vault, working day and night with the help of their watchout who seems to do quite well in his job. While working, a police officer knocked on the door of the shop. Everything during that time seems to be tensing up, one of the robber had manage to meet up with the officer and tried to lie by telling him that the shop had gone under renovation. The officer doesn't seem to believe, but the robber had manage to persuade the officer that the shop is really under renovation and the officer left.

Soon enough, they had manage to create a hole under the supposedly secured safety deposit vault. They didn't work on the safety deposit box straight away, but they rested for a day to get rid of the exhaustion. On the next day, they started to smash open each one of the safety box and retrieve it's precious deposits. During the commencement of the robbery, the local radio station had manage to air the discussion between both the watchout and robber. It seems that someone had manage to pickup their signal and records all of their conversation. The police was all on the move going to every bank within the 10miles radius of the walkie-talkie conversation. The police and bank manager had arrived in front of the bank and the watchout was so astonished that he had dropped his walkie talkie. The bank manager opened the bank door and...

Well I'm sorry for the interruption, please start downloading or go to the nearest in order to know more about this movie. I would rate this movie under PG or 18 since it has some sex scenes, nudity and violence. But overall, I guess this movie meets up to par and quite interesting if you're about to loose your mind from boredom. Whatever it is, just try to enjoy the movie.
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