Filled With Political Blackmail, ‘The Bank Job’ Pays Dividends

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CHICAGO – Done properly, the classic heist or caper film is a welcomed genre of suspense-filled locations, stereotyped experts and the big cash payoff. Based in speculative part on the true story of a robbery in a vital London safety deposit vault, “The Bank Job” adds the spice of political intrigue as an underlying factor to the actual crime.

Action movie star Jason Statham plays Terry: the leader of the wankerish gang of thieves who’s recruited because his former criminal colleague, Martine (Saffron Burrows), knows of an alarm shutdown in the vault and easy assess to it.

What Terry doesn’t know is that Martine is working for a shadowy operative named Richard (Tim Everett), who forces her into coordinating the bank job in exchange for the elimination of her felony drug charge.

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Jason Statham in The Bank Job
Jason Statham in “The Bank Job”.
Photo credit: IMDb


Saffron Burrows in The Bank Job
Saffron Burrows in “The Bank Job”.
Photo credit: IMDb


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