The Bank Job (2008) Critic Reviews

One of the pleasures of The Bank Job is that it returns us to the days when robbing a bank was a gritty, hole-in-the-wall affair.Read the full review

A brisk, entertaining crime thriller.Read the full review

Imagine a blend of "Snatch," "Ocean's 11" and "The Italian Job." Then juxtapose the staples of the caper genre with real events involving national security and high-level corruption, and the result is The Bank Job.Read the full review

Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that's full of surprises I have no intention of spoiling.Read the full review

A heist movie in the classic tradition - it details every aspect of the caper, from its genesis to its aftermath. The fact that there's political intrigue and espionage swirling around the edges only makes it more fascinating.Read the full review

The film dawdles at times. but for the most part Donaldson keeps just the right amount of tension present in each scene.Read the full review

What makes director Roger Donaldson's movie greater than zany heist fare is that this particular robbery really happened and that this episode illuminated an almost moral clash between the haves and the have-nots of Great Britain.Read the full review

The Bank Job engages us fully with a tale that's well-fashioned more than anything else, a fascinating study of morality at several levels of English society, and of honor, or the lack of it, among implausibly likable thieves.Read the full review

A slow-paced and often confusingly plotted crime drama that never lives up to the delicious potential of its premise.Read the full review