The Bank Job

The Bank Job is smart, well-paced, exciting entertainment for adults -- something that is more of a rarity than it should be. This may be just another bank job, like many you've seen before, but here's the payoff: it's a heist that actually looks real for once. Longtime screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have woven a masterful narrative full of odd twists and dark humor from which Australian director Roger Donaldson and a prime cast mine plum characters and a tight plot to satisfying effect. The Bank Job shapes up as one of the liveliest entertainments of the year and, in its twisted way, a genuine feel-good movie.