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A Kiss
by Marilyn Oakley - 03/18/25 02:17 PM
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The Works
by Michael Thomas Ellis - 03/18/25 02:11 PM
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Janita
by Gary E. Andrews - 03/17/25 10:54 PM
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Bonepony
by Gary E. Andrews - 03/16/25 07:01 PM
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Joined: Jul 2010
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"THE BANK JOB" is your Typical "Let's dig a hole under your average Bank Vault & loot it..'cuz their Seismic Alarm's off for a week" Plotline. (Atypically, it nets MORE loot than The Great Train Robbery, & it's something that ACTUALLY Happened!)
"Based on a True Story" in 1970's London England, (and SOME of "The Details" WON'T be De-Classified until 2058!) it goes WAY-Deeper than "just-about-The-Money": a Band of inexperienced Lowlifes is recruited to do this deed because a black racist organization's head has "compromising pics" of a Royal-in-Action. MI-5 (or is it 6?) wants the Pics & The Organizer "Gone"..but cant'..or won't..do their OWN "Dirty Work".
Among the "take" is an accidentally-burgled Porn King's Payoff-to-corrupt Cops Ledger Book...& suddenly EVERYBODY's doing BAD Things To EVERYONE-involved. And Chief-Burglar/ex-Used Car Dealer Terry Leather (Jason Stoneham, "Well-Done, Mate!") wants to get back to Normal Life with his pretty wife & 2 daughter Family.
SOME of What Goes ON Here you'd instantly nit as "Hard-to-Believe" in a Work of Fiction. BUT this IS one Heck of an Exciting Crime Movie..and Real-Life among the Low-Lifes IS, apparently, VERY-Entertaining!!! (& How Many criminals get "An Assist" from Lord Mountbatten?) See what I mean? ;->
Between the Well-Staged Sexy & Violent Scenes, I'd recommend leaving the kids at-home. As for Sexy, Saffron Burrows, as Martine, (Who initially gets blackmailed into creating the Heist) holds her own with any Sophia Loren for classic, sophisticated On-Screen Sizzling! I'd give it an "8-Outta-10" for Suspense, Sizzle, and Excitement. Fine Directing by Roger Donaldson, and the Screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais unfolds as-dramatically as a "True Story" ever could.
Bring a little Extra-Padding for The Edge of Your Seat.
JMO..Keep-o-r-Sweepit!
Big Hugs,
Stan
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I'll Bump this Baby Up-to-the-Top since it's the Last One I've reviewed..& I Recommend Ya See It..'cuz It's a True Story..& it WAS really an Exciting Flick/Deserves some High Praise, IMO.
Big Hugs,
Ol' Stan
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