BANK JOB - Mixed up robbery

I'm a fan of Jason Statham, the accent, the charisma, the easy going and no-nonsense character. Let's say, I missed his latest movie, Bank Job couple months ago. Trutfully, not that interested, i thought it's gonna be like those Transporter rubbish series. But, after reading most of positive reviews, I thought I would give it a look. 

In the end, it's actually good! A decent movie, without big budget spent on CG or special effects. My girlfriend also seems to like the movie, means that this thing worked well!!! no offense there, honey...

A should-be-easy-robbery evolved into fucked-up-and-messy-complicated-robbery, based on true story (with MANY dramatisation and additional spicy things) on the robbery at London's Barker Street, where it involved MI5 or 6 (what the difference anyway??? still dun get it) in order to obtain sensitive + scandalous pics of one of the royals (used by a black revolutionary and so-called civil rights activist, Michael X to black mail the goverment). They conducted a covert op by hiring a bunch of amateurs (led by Statham) to rob a bank with the intention of taking the pics from the vault. 

The movie comprised of several plots with each has its own problems, the robbers, government, the brothel owner, and the black activist himself. Altogether, it was all concluded in the dramatic ending. The plot was straightforward, but still, it turned the simple robbery became a hectic situation where all the different plots came together (Quite similar with the Guy Ritchie's Snatch, but this one is much more serious type). 

What keep bugging me is that the movie was set on 1970's...but its end result looks like 90's. I supposed they should edit the colouring and the tone to match with the initial setting. Statham looks okay, but still, he seems to be a modern and cool guy, transported through time to the 70's.

Nevertheless, it was a good low budget movie from minor studio. I really think Statham should play more roles with this type, rather to continue as the Jet li-too-many-kungfu-DRIVER!!!