This is a Bank job worth going on

Rating: 7/10 (29 December 2006)

The problem with these movies is does the ending match up to what has gone before? The answer is yes and no. The movie sets the siege situation up nicely with fine acting from Denzil Washington and Clive Owen as the cop/robber protagonists. There's also fine support acting from Christopher Plummer as the bank's owner with a decidedly dodgy past and a superb turn by Jodie Foster who nearly steals the movie as a hard as nails bitch who is determined to get what she wants out of the situation. The movie rattles along at a pace and certainly keeps up your interest into how the robbers will get out of the bank when it is surrounded by New York's finest. When the ending comes there are some buts and hows mixed with disbelief but that doesn't detract from the movie as a whole which is well worth catching.