The Bank Job

Although the film is set in 1971, signs on various shop doors seen in the film advertise that credit cards "Visa" and "Mastercard" are accepted.

The name "Visa" was not used for the charge card before 1977 (replacing Barclaycard in the UK); "Mastercard" was "Master Charge" until 1979.

The white police car (Jaguar) has orange stripes down the side.

These were not introduced until the late 1970s.

Paddington station is shown as restored with new British Rail signs.

In 1971, the station would have been rather dirty from the steam days and many of the main signs would have still been original.

Also, the train carriage is of 1973 vintage.

The underground train used in the film would have been used only on the newly opened Victoria Line and would have looked brand new in 1971.

In 1971, both the Northern Line (Tottenham Court Road) and Bakerloo Line (Edgware Road to Paddington) would have had red underground trains possibly dating from the 1930s to the 1950s.

On the end credits, the characters are grouped into categories.

The category "VILLAINS" is misspelled as "VILLIANS".

While at the cocktail party Anthony Johnson's Gunshot is playing in the background, this song didn't exist until 1981.

The two tone police sirens as heard on the film have a distinct Gallic note, and are not the familiar two tone siren used by the Metropolitan Police in the '70s and '80s.

Martine's coat goes from buttoned to unbuttoned several times while she and the other robbers are talking in the warehouse just after the robbery.

When Martine is recruiting Terry for the job, he is holding his drink with his left hand (complete with wedding band), then, without changing hands, sets it on the table with his right.

Terry ('Jason Statham' (qv)) wears a TAG Heuer Monaco watch.

The watch was already produced, but the brands name was Heuer then.

The TAG-Group and Heuer consolidated in 1985.

A shot of the exterior of Edgware Road station shows a sign pointing to the 'Hammersmith and City' Line.

This wasn't named as such until 1998 and would therefore have still been called the Metropolitan Line in 1970.

When testing the thermic lance for the first time the machine that was used to flip the table is clearly visible in the final shot of the scene.

When Guy Singer is murdered, he walks in with a blue bag, wrapped in a towel, under the arm.

The camera perspective changes while he's stabbed, and when he falls down the bag has vanished.

A Revox B77 reel to reel tape recorder is used by the ham radio operator to record the walkie-talkie traffic of the bank robbers.

While the movie is set in 1971, the B77 recorder was not released until 1978.

The movie's opening sequence ("Caribbean 1970") plays the 'T-Rex (I)' (qv) song "Bang A Gong (Get It On)," first released in September 1971.

But it is only in the soundtrack, and the characters in the scene do not hear it.

In the newspaper which reports the robbery, "Sergeant" is misspelled "Sargeant.

" The end of the movie claims Michael X was charged and hanged with the murder of Gale Benson.

He was actually charged with the murder of barber, Joseph Skerritt.

A shot of the exterior of Baker St.

station includes a glimpse of the upper section and roof of a London bus driving by at speed.

However, it is possible to deduce from the 'straight' rectangular shape of the bus' roof that it is one of the new generation of front-entry buses, possibly the DMS series, first introduced in London in the mid-70s.

Prior to this time, the most common double decker buses in London were the Routemaster (RM), introduced in the early 1960s, and the ubiquitous RT, the definitive London Bus, first introduced in the mid 1940s, both of these bus types having narrower roofs with rounded edges.

So there is no way that the bus in this particular shot could have existed in 1971.

When Terry begins to peel the tiles from the floor of the boutique, the glue used to hold them has a "fresh and liquid" appearance.

Tiling-adhesive dries to a very hard and dry state making a "clean removal" next to impossible.

Towards the end of the film where one of the robbers is suffocated to death with a plastic bag, in the light blue Mercedes, the car's registration plate ends in 'L'.

The 'L' series is 1972/1973 plate, the newest registration plates at the time the film was set would have been 'K' and even in September 1971, that would have just come out.

Michael X is from Trinidad but has a Jamaican accent.

The use of the thermal lance is unrealistic.

A skilled operator would check the gases are on and at the correct pressure before ignition, rather than relying on a third party to "turn on the oxygen" at the cylinder.

As both the oxy-acetylene torch and the lance have shutoff valves, the operator could isolate all the gases if required.

Since Bambas was the expert on drilling / tunneling, it is unlikely he would have allowed anyone else to operate the lance, as they would have had no experience of it.

Martine (Saffron Burrows) reads from a newspaper and comments"police last night were trying to hone in on a £300,000 bank raid, they still don't know what bank it was".

The amount of money stolen could not be known or even estimated until the bank from which it had been stolen was known.

It's a British crime thriller starring Jason Statham. It cleverly weaves together a number of real- life events in 1971 into a "this might be what happened scenario" involving a bank robbery that happened at The Baker Street in Central London, the details of which never came to light.

'The Bank Job' is not your typical Jason Statham film. It has a lot less action and a lot more, for lack of a better word, maturity about it.

A British comedy heist film starring Jason Statham and a whole bunch of other great British actors. Loosely based on a real London bank robbery that happened in 1971.

This movie should have been good with Jason in it since he has done excellent work in all his previous movies but the script & direction of this one is just so lame.I've seen lame low budget bank heist movies that had scripts written in 2 minutes on a napkin that was far superior in every aspect to this one.

One of my favorite 'one time see' movies. The plot is based on real story which covers the 70's England.

I watched this DVD back to back twice. I loved it.

"The Bank Job" is based upon a true story of a 70's bank heist that was built around recovering some photos of a royal family member in a compromising position from a safety deposit box.Martine (Saffron Burrows) learns of a bank which has some issues with it's alarm system and consequently has them disarmed while the problem is being resolved.

Jason Statham is, of course, the new Stephen Segal of our era. However, this film shows he does more than just simple action flicks.

I have only seen one other Jason Statham movie and that was Lock Stock and two smoking Barrels. I do not remember him at all.