THE BANK JOB (2008)

Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), former model and sometimes drug dealer, brings to her one-time lover Terry Leather (Jason Stratham), a plan to rob the safe deposit vault of a bank whose alarm system is off line for repairs. She doesn't tell him that she's being blackmailed by MI5 (o r6?) to retrieve compromising photos of Princess Margaret from one of the boxes. Terry puts together several amateur, low-level villains to tunnel into the vault. They score millions in cash and jewels--and critical stuff belonging to a pornography titan with police on his payroll, a bordello owner with politico clients and a black militant drug dealer---all of whom will stop at nothing to retrieve their valuables. Lots of moving parts, but director Roger Donaldson keeps them humming in synch, so you never lose track of the connections. The heist is absorbing. This film is based on a real life British heist. Very entertaining.