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Article: Slick 'Bank Job' zooms in on real-life 1971 robbery.(Entertainment)
- Article from:
- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2008
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THE BANK JOB. Directed by Roger Donaldson, with Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, David Suchet, Alki David, Michael Jibson and Richard Lintern.
Review: MICHAEL PHILLIPS
Any heist film containing the line "I will not be lectured by the porn king of Soho!" is on the right track. Throw in a pungent evocation of 1971 London, with its monstrous sideburns and even bigger walkie-talkies, and references to "the big score, the one that makes sense of everything" and there you have it. Slick, ice-cold and enjoyable, The Bank Job is a bit of all right.
Walkie-talkies play a comically ...