I just watched The Bank Job on Netflix. It's a semi-historical, speculative take on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in the UK.
It has some slight relevance to current events as it depicts MI-5 going to extreme lengths to protect the reputation of a member of the royal family. According to Wikipedia, the film's producers said that they had an inside source who revealed "the truth" about what happened.
It's pretty entertaining. Besides the bank robbery, there's a side plot concerning a Jamaican black power activist, Michael X, whom I had never heard of before.
I rate it 8.0.
are you referring to the 2000 movie or the 2019 movie?
Having read some of the reviews I thought this would be a great flick but NO, NO, NO!! Just doesn't make sense how anyone would rate such an awful film above a 1 star or 2 stars even if you were being exceedingly generous. The movie progressed delivering awkward lines and scenes by the truck load. CGI was good but all completely undone by weak scripts and poor performances at every opportunity. This movie puts together all the bad clichés and has no coherence, such a shame.
I watched a great movie yesterday. It's The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck. Ben plays an unusual character, an autistic (high functioning), master accountant and former hit man. There's plenty of action, but there's substantial character development as well.
A sequel is planned. I just hope they do a good job with it.
10/10
The Accountant 2 confirmed, Ben Affleck to return
Simon Brew Jun 27, 2017
- 26 June 2017
- Den of Geek
A sequel to the Ben Affleck-starring 2016 crime thriller The Accountant is in the works over at Warner Bros.
That’s accountancy for you. When the sums were totted up for the Ben Affleck-headlined thriller The Accountant, it turned out it was a feature that made itself – and Warner Bros – a handsome profit. So much so, in fact, that Warner Bros has now ordered a sequel.
Ben Affleck is set to return in the lead role of Christian Wolff. His character, a high-functioning autistic man with a sideline in the odd assassination here and there, was about the most interesting thing about the original film. Jon Bernthal is also set to appear in the follow-up.
In the director’s chair, meanwhile, Gavin O’Connor is set to return as well, having steered the first movie.
Bill Dubuque is set to pen the screenplay for the new film,
I watched a great movie yesterday. It's The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck. Ben plays an unusual character, an autistic (high functioning), master accountant and former hit man. There's plenty of action, but there's substantial character development as well.
A sequel is planned. I just hope they do a good job with it.
10/10
4/10
I watched this film yesterday for the first time and I look at "Logan" as the "Alien 3" of the X-Men franchise. It basically gives a gigantic middle finger to everything that came before it. It destroys everything the movie that proceeded it ("Days of Future Past") accomplished. In "DOFP", all of mutant kind are about to be destroyed, but by the heroic actions of Logan himself, they survive. Then, according to the film "Logan", they all get killed off a few years later anyways. It has been said that one of the big themes of "Logan" was disappointment and I agree. I was very disappointed in this film.