'The Bank Job 2008'

The Story

It’s 1971 and incredibly high cheek-boned model Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) is stopped at the airport and arrested for smuggling drugs. Terry Leather (Jason Statham) is having problems keeping his car dealership afloat. Martine solves both their problems by telling Terry about a bank that’s about to undergo a change in its security system, leaving a very small window of opportunity to break into the safe deposit vault and wipe out the vault’s contents. Terry, a bit down on his luck and with a wife and child to care for, decides to go for it.



Daniel Mays and Jason Statham in The Bank Job.
© LionsgatePutting together a small crew of his (minor) criminal buddies, they rent a business near the bank and tunnel their way through 40 feet of dirt, bricks, and other assorted material, into the vault. Once there, safe deposit boxes are plundered and their contents – items some of the box owners never wanted to see the light of day – are laid out to be divvied up by the crew. But let’s back up a minute… How exactly does Martine’s drug bust relate to setting Terry up with this job? And how is it possible Martine knows all about this particular bank – Lloyd’s Bank on Baker Street? And what’s with the secret meetings Martine’s having with a buttoned-down fellow who looks like he works for the government?
Terry’s sharper than he looks, but not savvy enough to put two and two together before finding himself knee deep in a boatload of trouble. Money and jewels aren’t the real treasures discovered in the bank’s safe deposit boxes. Perusing their loot, Terry and his crew find a batch of photos featuring a very well-known member of the Royal Family in an extremely compromising (and naked) situation. There’s also some x-rated footage featuring government officials having fun with whips, chains, and other S&M toys. The bank robbers quickly figure out what Martine was really after, and deduce they’ve been set up. But nasty photos and millions in cash aren’t the only things in their possession that’ll get them in trouble. No, there’s a certain member of the criminal underworld who kept his book of payoffs to dirty cops in his safe deposit box and he’s willing to kill to get that ledger back.