The Bank Job - a 2008 crime movie based on a true-life robbery from 1971 of a bank in London, on Baker Street, from which all the valuables and stolen money were never recovered. This story was kept from the public because of a D-Notice government order, for protecting a prominent British Royal Family member. Exciting movie atmosphere… the high-level of corruption, sexual scandal and murder in the 1970s England… keeps your curiosity alive. Starring: Jason Statham (Transporter, Snatch, Italian Job, Crank) and Saffron Burrows (Enigma, Klimt).
Terry (Statham) – some auto dealer with a shady past and a brand new family, has avoided always the major-league scams. But when a beautiful model - Martine (Burrows), from his old neighborhood, offers him some lead at a foolproof bank, a hit on Baker Street, in London, Terry recognizes this as a lifetime opportunity. Martine’s target is a room full of safe deposit boxes that worth millions in jewelry and cash. But Terry and his team don’t realize the boxes contain also a treasure of dirty secrets – the secrets that will bring deadly web of illicit scandal and corruption that spans criminal underworld in London, the highest British government echelons, and the Royal Family itself…the true story of a heist gone wrong…in all the right ways.
IMDb User Rating: 7.8/10 (5,829 votes)
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