Little White Lies magazine

American satirist Stephen Colbert famously said of Chevy Chase that he respected him above all other comedians because Chase “never forgot what got him wherever it is he thinks he is [and] never ever attempted to do anything in any way different from the last thing he did.” That sort of consistency has to be respected. And so it is with Jason Statham, whose niche career (or malaise, depending on your point of view) continues in The Bank Job. Though based on the ‘true story’ of a gang of crims who accidentally nicked a safe containing some royal blackmail material, the plot plays out like a drunken pub anecdote. Although inoffensive and decently paced, The Bank Job is cinema by numbers.