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Hey, hey, hey, let’s visit the LaGrange.<\/p>\n

What’s on tap for the 9:00-ish shows?<\/p>\n

Juno<\/a> – Seen it!<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bucket List<\/a> – Seeing this movie isn’t on my bucket list, nor will it likely ever be.<\/p>\n

Fool’s Gold<\/a> – Ooh, another Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson romantic comedy. I think the fact that I watched How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days<\/a> on an airplane with the sound off gives me the right to skip this one.<\/p>\n

The Bank Job<\/a> – Sure, let’s go!<\/p>\n

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So there’s a few plot threads being woven in and out throughout the duration of the film, but essentially The Bank Job is a story about a group of people led by Jason Statham who rob a bank in England, and then proceed to extricate themselves from several sticky situations that arise from robbing the bank. It is based on a true story, or as the movie’s tagline puts it, “The true story of a heist gone wrong… in all the right ways.” YEAH!!!!! (that YEAH was sarcastic, by the way).<\/p>\n

Based on the previous movies I had seen with Statham (the mind-numbingly goofy Transporter movies, the sort-of okay Jet Li vehicle The One), I was a little surprised that this movie was rather understated, with little violence or action. But there were lots of boobies. Plenty of boobies.<\/p>\n

Statham sported probably the most comprehensive set of facial stubble I have seen since the films of Sergio Leone. Unfortunately, I did not sit through the end credits to see if a Stubble Wrangler had been employed.<\/p>\n

An actor who played a cop in the first couple seasons of the British series Prime Suspect has a reasonably large part in this movie as, um, a cop. But he’s a bad cop! Take that, pigeonholing casting directors!<\/p>\n

Overall, this movie was a little long, a little overcomplicated, a little light on action. But everyone talked British, so that’s something, I guess.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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