The Bank Job

Supposedly based on a true story from the 1970s, a group of small-time criminals really step in it when they are conned into robbing a bank’s safety deposit box vault. Where’s a rag-tag gang of ol’ buddy crooks to turn when every direction leads them to a pissed off porn king, a drug-smuggling murderous Malcolm X wanna-be and Britain’s MI5 (or was it 6?) hoping to protect a certain naughty Royal? The movie runs longer than two hours (who knows just how long ... when the commercials outlast the previews, one loses track of how long one has sat waiting for the movie to start), and it did start to drag at what was probably the two-hour point, where I wondered how they were going to get out of their predicament but then realized I didn’t much care as long as the credits rolled soon so I could say I finished watching it. Aside from the lag, it was entertaining. Prepare for a late-minute lag, perhaps you’ll do just fine. Verdict: Movie Rental