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By Frank Scheck

The caper film is such a time-honored and recently neglected genre that it's a shame to report that Roger Donaldson's The Bank Job isn't better than it is.

Loosely based on the true-life 1971 robbery of a Lloyds Bank in a ritzy section of London, Bank is a slow-paced and often confusingly plotted crime drama that never lives up to the delicious potential of its premise.

The heist's central figure is Terry Jason Statham... Read the full review and more at hollywoodreporter.com.

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