The Bank Job

These days when you hear the word “Bank” you can’t help but think of all the ones that went belly-up on Wall Street. :-) But once upon a time, banks used to make you think of the word “Heist”!

“The Bank Job” is based upon one such real life bank robbery tha took place in 1971 on the Baker Street. The thieves got in by digging a tunnel and broke into the safe deposit boxes looting jewellery and cash worth over three million pounds. What’s more, nothing was ever recovered, no one was ever arrested.

I do not know how far the movie version has stayed faithful to these real life events. But to tell the story in a nutshell: Terry Leather (Jason Statham) – a conman, is now a London car dealer. Life is dull but straight when in walks Martine, his former teammate. She tells Terry that her latest boyfriend has told her about how a particular bank’s alarm is going to be non-functional for a few days. A better opportunity to rob it would never present itself again!

Terry readies his team, little knowing that Martine’s ultimate goal is to secure the contents of only one safe deposit box – a compromising “portfolio” of one of the royals! M-5 (or M-6!) is using her jail sentence - for possession of narcotics - as the bargaining chip to get at that “portfolio” – because they in turn need it to nab a Trinidad thug. And to make matters a wee bit more complicated, there’s no telling what London’s high and mighty has got stashed away in those safe deposit boxes :-) Terry and his buddies are going to step on a lot of tails for sure but can they walk away with the loot - and their lives?

Don’t ask me. Go grab the DVD and watch it for yourself! :-)