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Plenty of plot twists to keep action hot
Friday July 25 2008 By Peter Muhvic, REWIND The Bank Job
*** out of ****

The Bank Job may come packed with enough plot twists to make your head spin, but at heart it’s as straightforward as its on-target title.
The Bank Job follows a posse of British amateur bank robbers looking to raid a bank’s safety deposit box room.
The mysterious Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) recruits an old friend, Terry (Jason Statham), to head the mission. Martine has learned that a London bank’s alarms will be down for a week and Terry can score big enough to pay off his debt to the mob and start life anew.
What Martine doesn’t tell Terry is that one of the safety deposit boxes holds incriminating photos of a member of the royal family, who is the real target. Those photos and the various people keeping tabs on them cause all sorts of havoc for Terry and his gang.
The movie does some nice things to mix up the genre a little. Its robbers aren’t experienced in this sort of thing. The crew includes a man who cons old women, a wannabe actor who can only get parts as an extra or in adult films and a simple car dealership employee.
Also mixing it up is how the robbing of the bank is completed halfway through the movie, leaving the last half to show the fallout. The bank job itself is exciting, but the real action heats up when the aftermath ignites a whole series of other storylines.
And through it all The Bank Job remains a fairly stripped down experience with a welcome emphasis on substance over style. 

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