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Review: The Bank Job
Filed under: New Releases », Lionsgate Films », Theatrical Reviews », New in Theaters »
How many heist movies have been made in the past 100 years? Probably not as many as hit man movies or serial killer movies, but nevertheless quite a few. Happily, there's always room for one more, if it's a good one, and Roger Donaldson's The Bank Job is indeed a good one. Moreover, I'd venture to say that it deserves to be called a crackerjack heist movie. Donaldson is about as far from a cinematic auteur as a director can get -- his disparate credits include The Bounty (1984), Cocktail (1988), Species (1995), Thirteen Days (2000), The Recruit (2003) and The World's Fastest Indian (2005) -- but that's where thirty years of experience and skill come in. The Bank Job takes a fairly complex story with multiple players on multiple sides, and presents it cleanly, briskly and excitingly.
Jason Statham leads the huge cast as Terry, a small time London hustler deep in debt, married with kids, and running a crooked auto shop -- just till he gets back on his feet. It's 1971 and an old friend, Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), who has been working as a model, shows up with a proposition. She is dating a secret agent who told her about a bank; the nearby tube trains have been setting off the alarms, so they're being replaced, and the bank will be without alarms for a time. Plus, if they hit the safe deposit boxes, there will be no way to trace the crime, based on the theory that most people won't want to disclose what it was they wanted to keep safe. Terry rounds up a couple of his mates and launches his scheme. They rent a storefront a couple of doors down from the bank, tunnel underground and re-surface inside the vault.
Milo Ventimiglia is Ready to Get 'Armored'
Filed under: Action », Casting »
As if the current cast for the upcoming action/heist movie Armored wasn't enough, they've just added a Hero to make things more tasty -- it's even the most powerful hero out there. Variety reports that Milo Ventimiglia has signed on for a role in the film. Now, before I go further, the reason I'm not mentioning the inclusion of Morpheus and a certain Professional, who are also listed in the Variety blurb -- those guys were already attached earlier this month, when I posted about Skeet Ulrich's involvement. So, as it stands now, the film features: Matt Dillon, Columbus Short, Fred Ward, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Ulrich, and Ventimiglia. Not a bad cast, eh?The film, which is currently shooting in Los Angeles, focuses on "a young armored car guard who is persuaded by his veteran cohorts to empty a truck of its $10 million cargo." Now we just have to wait and see who the young guy is -- Short or Ventimiglia? I'd say the former, since Milo just signed on. It'd be sort of weird to have the main dude picked last. If screenwriter James V. Simpson delivered a decent script, and director Nimrod Antal sets this up right, this could be one sweet heist movie. If it doesn't come together, well, it'd be a shame, because this cast is just great.
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