OK. Bad joke. I can’t remember the exact dialogue. When I suggested to watch “The Bank Job” last week, my buddy TK was like, “Isn’t that your job? 9 to 5 is not enough and you have to watch it on big screen?”
Duh!
Cynthia couldn’t have put it better: Before “The Italian Job” and “Ocean 11”, there was “The Bank Job”. If you have watched all of the above, you shall know what she meant. And you know what? If luck holds, we may have “The Brazilian Job” played by the same actor, Jason Statham. It’s a sequel, that much I can tell you.
Now, check this out: British intelligence set up a robbery to gain possession of a safety deposit box containing incriminating sex photos of Princess Margaret. How much of the story is true? It’s impossible to tell. The film producers claim that they have inside source. Then again, this is UK you are talking about. I always loved to read their sensational tabloids especially the weekend editions when I was a student there. We need spice in life, we need to feed on gossips.
I love the rather complex plot of murder, corruption, and a sex scandal, and overlaid on top, a rather low tech bank robbery (it’s a crime committed in 1971 so what else do you expect?) that is not without its nail biting moments. And I also love how this rather multi-dimensional storyline is being told with such fluidity. Despite the fact that there are quite a number of characters and dialogues involved, each scene tells a concise piece of story that gels well with the next. It’s not a movie that you can leave your brain outside the theatre, of course. But it is not hard to follow either.
So is there enough chemistry between Queen of Troy (Saffron Burrows) and Mr. Transporter (Jason Statham)? I think they are both fine English actors and if there was more passion between the two, even for the imaginary character of Martine Love that does not exist in the so-called true story, it wouldn’t be believable.