Bank job
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bank job |
| Original title | The Bank Job |
| Country of production | UK , USA , Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Donaldson |
| script |
Dick Clement , Ian La Frenais |
| production |
Steve Chasman , Charles Roven |
| music | J. Peter Robinson |
| camera | Michael Coulter |
| cut | John Gilbert |
| occupation | |
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The Bank Job is a British heist movie from the year 2008 . Directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais . A burglary in Baker Street in London in 1971 with several million pounds of loot served as a real model . The producers claim the film reveals the truth about the case that was never solved for the first time. The media were then urged to stop reporting on the bank robbery because national security had been affected.
action
The workshop owner and former petty criminal Terry Leather is recruited for a job by his old friend Martine Love in September 1971 . It turns out that he is supposed to be carrying out a bank robbery on London's Baker Street . Leather and the other accomplices are unaware that Love works for MI5's intelligence agent Tim Everett , who blackmailed them after British Customs caught them smuggling drugs from Morocco to the UK, and that MI5 stole the contents of one of the safe deposit boxes want to come. There, Michael X is storing compromising photos with Princess Margaret , which he uses to protect his criminal activities against prosecution.
Leather agrees and puts together a team: First, he hires his old friends Dave Shilling, a former porn actor, and Kevin Swain, a photographer. Guy Arthur “Major” Singer rents a shop as a straw man in one of the bank's neighboring houses. Bambas delivers heavy equipment to dig a tunnel to the vault. Terry's employee, Eddie Burton, uses a radio to secure the area on the opposite roof as a guard . The thieves give themselves away through radio messages received by a radio amateur . He then alerts the police, who can only limit the crime scene to a radius of 10 miles and thus fail to find the bank in question in time. The police have an ambulance with a siren drive through the financial district in the hope that Eddie standing guard will report this to his accomplices and thus reveal the location of the robbery. Meanwhile, the gang penetrates the vault. Leather, who has already suspected that Martine has his own plans, gets his hands on the photos and takes them when he realizes the explosiveness of the pictures.
Not only Michael X has explosive pictures in a locker . The nightclub owner and porn producer Lew Vogel keeps his bank account there, in which he has noted all bribery payments to various police officers. The brothel owner Sonia Bern, on the other hand, has left pictures in her locker that show politicians during their visits to the brothel.
Lew Vogel realizes that Dave Shilling is involved and, with the help of some corrupt police officers, takes him hostage. They torture him to reveal his accomplices and the hiding place of the bank account. Dave reveals the names of the other robbers, and Vogel also kidnaps Eddie Burton to put pressure on Terry. To further increase the pressure, Dave is shot. Terry Leather now agrees to exchange the ledger for Eddie. Furthermore, he can arrange with the secret service and the crown to hand over the explosive photos from Michael X's locker against the guarantee of impunity and passports with other names. Guy and Bambas are attacked and murdered by strangers.
There is a meeting on a platform at Paddington train station at which MI5, a representative of the royal family, Lew Vogel and Terry Leather with his accomplice Martine Love want to hand over the respective objects and hostages. Kevin Swain informed the police officer responsible for investigating the bank robbery in advance of the handover and promised him Vogel's account book. In return he should protect her from the corrupt police officers who are determined to do anything. The sex photos are exchanged for passports for the bank robbers. After the corrupt police officers present, as well as Vogel, were arrested, the bank robbers were released thanks to Michael X's photos. Finally Michael X is arrested in Trinidad and Tobago , where he murdered the British agent Gale Benson who had smuggled into him .
The loot, at an estimated £ 4 million, was greater than that of the 1963 mail train robbery .
Reviews
Leslie Felperin wrote in Variety magazine on February 29, 2008 that the thriller was "compelling" but "unconvincing". He looks old-fashioned and cheaply made. The film music is "monotonous" and does not correspond to the epoch.
Sascha Westphal wrote in the newspaper Die Welt on June 19, 2008 that the film shows “England's abysses” in a way that could hardly be less illusory.
"Regardless of that, Roger Donaldson (" Dante's Peak "," The Mission ") manages an exciting thriller in a retro look with a trendy soundtrack and a dash of conspiracy theory. The eternally cool Statham offers one of the best performances of its career. "
“An actual bank break-in that happened in London in 1971 becomes the occasion for a revival of the burglar film genre, the stereotypes of which are placed in an unexpected context by exploring the social background. The tension is kept alive more by the skillful, step-by-step disclosure of the accompanying circumstances than by the bank break-in itself. "
backgrounds
The film was shot in London ( Pinewood Studios ), Australia and Sardinia . Its production amounted to an estimated 20 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on February 19, 2008 at the Glasgow Film Festival . The widespread release in British cinemas started on February 28, 2008; in the USA it followed on March 7, 2008 and in Germany on June 19, 2008. The film grossed around 3.8 million pounds sterling in British cinemas . In the USA about 30 million US dollars were made.
Mick Jagger makes a brief appearance as a bank clerk.
Web links
- Bank Job in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bank Job at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Bank job at Metacritic (English)
- Bank job in the online film database
- Bank job in the German synchronous database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for bank job . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 164 K).
- ↑ Production Notes ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Film review by Leslie Felperin, accessed on March 3, 2008 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Film review by Sascha Westphal, accessed on June 26, 2008
- ↑ TV feature film
- ^ Bank job in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Filming locations for The Bank Job, accessed March 3, 2008
- ↑ a b Box office results for The Bank Job, accessed June 26, 2008
- ^ Opening dates for The Bank Job, accessed June 26, 2008
