Jason Statham has almost become a guilty pleasure. Some of his movies are good, some are horrendous. Luckily, The Bank Job is one of the good ones.
Statham is playing one of his patented small-time hustlers, this time a family man with a wife and daughters, a failing business and a penchant for criminal activity. When a babelicious woman from his past brings him and his loser buddies a chance to loot a bank vault and get away with millions in untraceable cash and gems, they're not quite smart enough to see it's a set up.
Set in swinging London of the 1970s, what starts as a slow (almost too slow) character piece ramps up into a funny, action packed heist caper/conspiracy drama. There's spies and black radicals and gangsters and a madam, and somehow they're all after what this bunch of saps has. Who would have thought that naughty pictures of a princess would be so valuable?
Starts slow, ends a little too neatly, but the middle is top-notch. And truth is always stranger than fiction.
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