Movie: The Bank Job

Happy Easter!  This is the day that Jesus came out of his tomb on the third day, saw his shadow, and went back in, signifying that he would be able to drive all the snakes out of Ireland for at least six more weeks.  I think.  Well, anyway, Happy Easter.

Strix and I went to see The Bank Job the other night, which is based on a true story of a still-unsolved bank robbery in the early 70's in London.

This movie made 1970's London look a bit like Soddom and Gommorah.  Someone who was actually there would have to say how accurate this was, but everyone in this movie is dirty in some way, with the robbers actually looking like innocents caught up by circumstance.  Lots of plot twists and political intrigue keep this movie very interesting, and there are excellent performances by John Statham, as the leader of the gang, and David Suchet, who plays an unlikely strip-club owning, porn-movie producing criminal mixed up with dirty cops.

The robbers are brought into a plot to rob a bank by drilling up into it from underneath, where they will then have access to the safety deposit boxes.  Little do they know they're being set up to retrieve and item that the government needs, and needs to get without any chance of being traced back to the robbery.  Unfortunately for the robbers and the government, there are many other things that people have in their safe deposit boxes that they don't want to see the light of day.