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A serviceable B-grade British heist movie, “The Bank Job” is no worse than its generic title. And no better. It front-loads the naughty sex and back-loads the plot twists (the titular crime takes place in the middle), but apart from the prominence of Princess Margaret in the subterfuge, it’s a pretty routine job, as the use of the hackneyed phrase “plot twists” earlier in this sentence should indicate.

“The Bank Job” begins with a quick time-shuffle of the sort to which modern audiences have become accustomed. It starts in 1970 in the Caribbean. Literally in it. Brief shots of sub-aquatic toplessness are followed by a quick-and-blurry tropical fornication montage and a little retro-voyeuristic shutterbugging. Next, it’s East London in 1971 and some hoods are making violent threats against a stubbly car shop dealer named Terry Leather ( Jason Statham ). Then it’s three weeks earlier and ...

You know the drill. At first you think Guy Ritchie might be rolling in his grave — only he’s not dead, just his career. That’s the kind of cheap shot you have plenty of time to think about as this movie grinds through its laboriously disjointed exposition.

It doesn’t stick to that approach for long, though. Once the picture gets its chronology sorted out (why did it employ flashbacks to begin with?), it eventually works up some downhill momentum near the end. But for a movie about royal scandals, spies, cops, villains (slang for crooks and thugs), prostitutes, pornographers, strip clubs, payoffs, radical-chic black-power celebrity gangsters, murder, torture, blackmail, double-crossings, extramarital temptations... you’d sure think “The Bank Job” would be more fun to watch. Instead, it seems a little distracted, continually glancing back over its shoulder at a few hundred other caper films and crime thrillers. Once it triggers memories of movies as diverse as "The Asphalt Jungle," “ Rififi ,” " Le Cercle Rouge ," “ The Italian Job ,” “ Reservoir Dogs ,” “Ocean’s Eleven,” “ Inside Man ” — and how could it not? — you may realize that you’re not having quite as much fun watching this picture as you did watching those.

One semi-redeeming element is that the film was inspired by true events. The shocking 1971 Lloyds Bank robbery was a big story, until four days later when it suddenly wasn’t. The whole thing abruptly and mysteriously vanished from the papers, radio and television, reportedly due to a “D-Notice” issued by the highest authorities banning all press coverage.

But why? Did an opportunistic pseudo-radical black-power fascist who called himself Michael X really hide scandalous photographs of Princess Margaret in a London vault and then use the threat of exposure to blackmail the British government? Did Her Majesty’s Secret Service (“Spooks — MI5 or MI6, I can’t tell the difference,” a cop says) really engineer a bank robbery using small-time hoods to break into Pandora’s safety deposit box and retrieve the damning evidence before it escaped into the public domain?

Those are the premises of the script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (“ Across the Universe ,” “Flushed Away”). But how much is truth and how much is inspiration? Nobody quite knows. A recent article about the infamous “Walkie-Talkie Bank Job” on the Web site of the British tabloid The Daily Mail (Feb. 16, 2008) reports:

“Speculation quickly arose that compromising sexual photographs of the queen’s sister, the late Princess Margaret, had been uncovered in the bank vault.

"It was rumoured they had been stashed away by well-known underworld figure Michael X. A drug dealer and Black Power leader, he was convicted of murder and hanged in Trinidad in 1975. A government file on him will remain closed until 2054. The Mirror can for the first time reveal that Fleet Street editors of the day were approached directly by senior government officials and told to drop the story.”

And it’s such a good story. What a shame it isn’t more memorably told. The director is the bewilderingly uneven Roger Donaldson (“ Smash Palace ,” “ No Way Out ,” “ Cadillac Man ,” “ Cocktail ”). The cast are fine (as British grammar would have it). Sorry there isn’t more to report.

Jim Emerson is the editor of www.rogerebert.com.

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Tunneling Thieves Strike a Lode of Loot (and Valuable Smut)

By Manohla Dargis

March 7, 2008

The workmanlike title “The Bank Job” is a nice fit for this wham-bam caper flick. Efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson from a busy script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London vault cleanout on Baker Street labeled the walkie-talkie robbery. (The thieves squawked on the airwaves like crows.) It was headline news and, then, with a wave of the official wand, it was hush-hush. That’s one story, anyway.

True or not, the on-screen follies mostly amuse and generally divert. Working off a hot tip, a gang of charming lowlifes of varying capabilities and intelligence make like moles, tunneling under a women’s handbag store until they hit the larcenous lottery: safe-deposit boxes crammed with sparkling treasures, fistfuls of bank notes and delectable smut involving some Very Important Personages. The thieves led by the bullet-headed looker Jason Statham as Terry scoop up their ill-gotten goods and scram. Assorted coppers and villains give chase, as do some stiff-lip types in bespoke suits from the British security services.

The filmmakers have claimed that the British government put a kibosh on media reports about the robbery by issuing a D Notice (now called a DA Notice, for defense advisory), a form of media self-censorship jointly agreed upon by representatives of the press and the government. In February The Guardian published an article stating that no D Notice had been issued after the heist, but the truth is usually beside the point when it comes to this sort of breezy entertainment, so it’s hard to care. Far more important is the way Mr. Statham, a B-movie action pinup (“The Transporter”), pumps like a piston across the screen and fills out his natty leather coat, both of which he does with palpable brute force.

Blink and you may well miss the whodunit and what for, much less what does it all mean (if anything). Stuffed with personalities, the fast, fast, fast story unfolds somewhat like a three-dimensional chess game, with the pieces moving among the different levels: on the bottom are Terry and his lads, the shaggy-haired Kevin (Stephen Campbell Moore) and the snaggle-toothed Dave (Daniel Mays); in the middle are the designated villains, including a charismatic if dubious black-power gadfly, Michael X (Peter De Jersey), and the so-called Soho porn king, Lew Vogel (David Suchet); and, on the very top, pulling strings or so they believe, are the security services, represented by the well-heeled silky and sneery Tim (Richard Lintern).

Mixed in with this dodgy crowd is a question mark named Martine, a pulpy femme fatale who’s been sensitively shaded in by Saffron Burrows. A former model, this angular, melancholic beauty has, after making the usual independent rounds Mike Figgis directed her in his screen adaptation of the Strindberg play “Miss Julie” slowly and somewhat unexpectedly emerged as an actress to watch. Sadness clings to Ms. Burrows: it hoods her eyes, tugs at her mouth and wraps around her like a gossamer shawl. It gives her mystery and, like the hints of age edging her face, blunts the impact of her beauty, making her character more human and emotionally accessible than she might register otherwise.

Ms. Burrows is particularly welcome, given that the caper itself is pretty much a yawn. Central to the pleasure of a great heist film is the spectacle of men (rarely women) at work, men who through their hard labor, their sweat and stratagems and, if they’re in a Jean-Pierre Melville film, their honor defy the law and society. (There’s a reason so many of these movies seem like metaphors for moviemaking.) The walkie-talkie gang, by contrast, comes across here as more lucky than cunning. They blunder into the heist, at times comically, which amps the laughs, but helps drain what little suspense remains after Mr. Donaldson has whisked his characters through their paces, and the ruthlessly efficient editing has nipped at their heels.

Amid all the period wheeling and stealthy dealing, the story carves out a little time for a short detour involving Michael X also known as Michael de Freitas, also known as Michael Abdul Malik a native of Trinidad who became a radical-chic figure in London during the late 1960s and early 1970s and, years later, cannon fodder for the writer V. S. Naipaul, who saw him as a fraud. The film’s cartoonish depiction of Michael X doesn’t begin to do justice to the strangeness of his story he partied with John Lennon and was championed by William S. Burroughs, Dick Gregory and Heinrich Böll though it adds a nicely outré detail to this embroidered fiction. Maybe Mr. Statham can play Mr. Burroughs in the sequel.

“The Bank Job” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Some nasty, nasty blowtorch violence.

THE BANK JOB

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Roger Donaldson; written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; director of photography, Mick Coulter; edited by John Gilbert; music by J. Peter Robinson; production designer, Gavin Bocquet; produced by Steven Chasman and Charles Roven; released by Lionsgate. Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes.

WITH: Jason Statham (Terry), Saffron Burrows (Martine Love), Richard Lintern (Tim Everett), Stephen Campbell Moore (Kevin Swain), Daniel Mays (Dave Shilling), Peter Bowles (Miles Urquart), Peter De Jersey (Michael X) and David Suchet (Lew Vogel).

The Bank Job Review

28 Feb 2008

111 minutes

Bank Job, The

Roger Donaldson is the Ronnie O’Sullivan of directors - often brilliant but prone to wobbles. And true to form, after the sublime The World’s Fastest Indian comes this lumbering thriller which feels like it belongs on the telly. Pity, for he has an intriguing true-life premise to work from.

In 1971, the robbery of a London bank was covered up by a government D-notice that quelled the media response, and the robbers were never caught. But despite that, and the odd attempt to deepen the story from a socio-political viewpoint, this is oddly uninvolving, while Statham - so good at punching things and growling threats - is stranded with a role that requires him to do little of either. Disappointing.

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A thrilling and fun film about a British working class bunch who find themselves in confrontation with the rich and powerful. This happens when their once-in -a-lifetime job lands them not on ly the expected money and jewelry, but documents with big secrets. The phrase "the good version of Jason Statham" applies not only to the actor but to the whole film - as it is enjoyable like all similar heist movies but adds that sadly forgotten thing called character. If you liked The Italian Job, The Town, or even films like Argo; you will love The Bank Job.

How is Jason Statham good & funny in everything?! I never have to worry if I will enjoy a movie whenever I see his name.

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Caper movie mixes clichés, brutal violence.

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What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

Thieves are affable and crafty; sex-seeking govern

Gangsters carry guns and beat and torture their op

Several sex scenes. Two women and a man have sex -

Lots of swearing, particularly "f--k." O

London banks shown include Lloyds and Barclays.

Gangsters and cops are involved in drug dealing an

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Thieves are affable and crafty; sex-seeking government officials and dirty cops are smug and corrupt; gangsters and pimps are brutal. One thief's very generous "civilian" wife forgives him.

Violence & Scariness

Gangsters carry guns and beat and torture their opponents. Weapons include guns, knives, and a blow torch. Images include bloody gunshot wounds and a dead body post-torture by burning. Thugs threaten the hero by smashing cars at his workplace. A stereotypical militant postures aggressively throughout the film and menaces an associate's girlfriend, eventually shooting her in a grave in Trinidad (this scene is brutal; she dies off screen, but you hear the shot and see her decayed body dug up by authorities weeks later).

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Several sex scenes. Two women and a man have sex -- nakedness is clear (bare backs and breasts). In a sex club, a dominatrix whips a man in his underwear; there are women in bras and panties, some showing breasts and nipples. Scene in a bank vault features kissing and pawing. Photo intended for blackmail shows blurry sexual situations. Strippers appear in a club clad in thongs and nipple pasties. Sexual slang includes talk about oral sex, genitals, "tits," "wankers," and "prick."

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Lots of swearing, particularly "f--k." Other language includes "s--t" (sometimes used with "-hole" and "dog-"), "ass," "c--t," and "bastard."

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Parents need to know that this edgy heist thriller has several scenes that show or insinuate "kinky" sex (bondage, domination) being paid for by British government officials. There's also partial nudity (breasts) and a thematic focus on scandals involving pornography and prostitution. Violence includes the prolonged torture/murder of a sympathetic crook; you can also expect plenty of gun use and fighting. Drugs (both dealing and smuggling) are discussed frequently, and scenes show marijuana use, cigarette smoking, and drinking. Language includes lots of "f--k"s, plus other profanity and British slang ("wanker," etc.). To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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You've always been looking for the big score, Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) tells Terry Leathers ( Jason Statham ), "the one that makes sense of everything." And so, in THE BANK JOB, Terry -- like many movie crooks before him -- is lured into a scheme (inspired by a real-life 1971 heist) to rob a London bank. With a crew comprised of both friends and specialists, he tunnels from a nearby shop into the bank's time-locked vault, where they find a trove of safety deposit boxes. It's only after finishing the job that Terry learns the heist was actually instigated by a spy tasked with retrieving one box's contents: pornographic photos of British politicians and aristocrats (including a royal princess). Now he has to outmaneuver government agents, gangsters, and both corrupt and good cops.

Is It Any Good?

Statham is surely charismatic, but the film is defined by its thinly drawn characters (the stereotypical militant, the hypocritical politicos) and by-the-numbers plot. Though Terry probably believes himself when he tells his wife that "All I want is to get out of the game," he's also plainly thrilled by challenge, the chance to beat the system one more time. But he's surprised by the ferocity of his adversaries, who have much more at stake than he does. These include not only the politicians caught with their pants down, but also a gangster who keeps cops on his payroll and a militant who's used the princess photos to blackmail his way out of a prison sentence. As Roger Donaldson 's movie keeps track of all these plot strands at once, it becomes more procedural than compelling.

Meanwhile, per heist movie formula, Terry's bad behavior is offset by the even worse behavior of his opponents. Theft, deception, and adultery don't look so terrible compared to murder and torture, especially since the robbers seem like they're having fun, trusting and kidding one another in ways that the generally humorless assortment of gangsters, pimps, revolutionaries, and authorities can't manage.

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Families can talk about how heist movies tend to portray their "heroes." Even though they're planning robberies, characters like Terry and the guys in the Ocean's movies are sympathetic -- is that realistic? What defines a "good guy" and a "bad guy"? How does this movie make Terry and his outlaw gang seem less offensive than the bad cops and government authorities? Viewers who want to know more about the unsolved real-life 1971 robbery that inspired the movie can click here .

Movie Details

In theaters : March 6, 2008
On DVD or streaming : July 15, 2008
Cast : Jason Statham , Saffron Burrows , Stephen Campbell Moore
Director : Roger Donaldson
Inclusion Information : Female actors
Studio : Lionsgate
Genre : Drama
Run time : 115 minutes
MPAA rating : R
MPAA explanation : sexual content, nudity, violence and language.
Last updated : January 27, 2023

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If you want a heist movie with class, you cast George Clooney and Brad Pitt and make a film along the lines of Ocean’s Thirteen (or any of the preceding ones). When you want a gritty, seedy heist movie, you hire the new action kid on the block, Jason Statham and end up with a flick like The Bank Job .

On the surface you might think that this movie is akin to one of his usual balls-to-the-wall action flicks like Crank or The Transporter , but it isn’t. Instead The Bank Job is a methodical telling of an unsolved and secrecy veiled 1971 bank robbery of the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank, in which thieves walked out with approximately Â£500,000. What makes the story worth telling is that once the gag order was lifted, it turned out the heist was orchestrated by the government, in an effort to cover-up indiscretions by members of the royal family.

Statham takes on the role of Terry Leather, a two-bit hustler who is down on his luck (owes cash to the local gangsters) and trying like hell to make ends meet via a quasi-legitimate living selling cars. Yet when he gets the “perfect” score dropped into his lap by his childhood friend Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) he can’t turn it down, even though he has serious reservations about it. His apprehension is warranted too because behind the scenes MI5, led by agent Tim Everett (Richard Lintern) is pulling the marionette strings. Everett’s goal is two-fold: retrieve the incriminating evidence located in the bank and silence Michael X (Peter De Jersey) permanently.

After this intriguing setup of corrupt officials and brazen criminals, The Bank Job begins to lose some of its steam rather quickly. Mostly it gets terribly slow in the middle and the story gets muddy and difficult to follow. Director Roger Donaldson finds himself shifting focus from the robbery and the accompanying sexual tension between Leather and Love to side stories of radical black revolutionist Michael X, porn kingpin Lew Vogel (David Suchet) and various government entities and back again. Indeed, it is a true story and all these facets play a role in the scheme, but a great deal of it could have and should have been filtered down before consumption.

That being said, it was still interesting to watch how the crime got pulled off. It was clear from the beginning these goons had no idea what they were doing – so much of their success relied on pure, unadulterated luck. Hell, even I know radio transmissions can be eavesdropped upon and that using a jackhammer at all hours of the day and night would raise some suspicions. I was curious however, if the movie took creative liberties with the ending and if so, how much. Sure some interpretation is expected when bringing a true story to the silver screen, but I couldn’t help but notice how convenient it was that all the loose ends tied themselves up into nice tight knot at the film’s climax.

So even though The Bank Job is a bit of letdown for me, it was still a step in the right direction for Statham — away from the malady that was In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale and back towards the kind of movies I expect from him (he’s slated to star in Crank 2: High Voltage ).

I'm an old, miserable fart set in his ways. Some of the things that bring a smile to my face are (in no particular order): Teenage back acne, the rain on my face, long walks on the beach and redneck women named Francis. Oh yeah, I like to watch and criticize movies.

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March 5, 2008 @ 5:28 pm Tracy

I am really getting tired of seeing heist movies, the whole thing has been done too many times. The only reason I will watch this movie is the twist that it is a real life heist. I have a weak spot for movies which use true to life stories. It makes you wonder how they really got away with it.

March 8, 2008 @ 7:30 am Elisa

mmmmm, I adore Jason Statham. I can’t wait to see this. :D

March 15, 2008 @ 4:48 pm Phntmbanana

I enjoyed this one quite a bit had a lot of fun with it but I can see some of the points you said were poor

November 13, 2008 @ 11:12 am vintage art

It’s nice to see Jason Statham explores different roles than the ones we are used to watch him in.

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Jason Statham as Terry Leather; Keeley Hawes as Wendy Leather; Saffron Burrows as Martine Love; Richard Lintern as Tim Everett; Stephen Campbell Moore as Kevin Swain; David Suchet as Lew Vogel; Hattie Morahan as Gale Benson; Peter De Jersey as Michael X

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In 1971, a team of thieves in London tunneled under the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank and emptied its vault. The perpetrators of the so-called “Walkie-Talkie Robbery” made off with roughly £3 million in cash, gold and jewelry—the biggest heist in British history.

Despite the fact that a ham radio operator stumbled upon the thieves’ walkie-talkie conversation in flagrante delicto , police never made any arrests. Nor was any of the money ever recovered. Press coverage of the crime abruptly ceased four days after the theft was reported. And it’s widely believed that the British espionage agency MI5 asked the press to kill the story because its details posed a threat to national security.

The Bank Job is a fictionalized account of that heist. And as director Roger Donaldson (The Recruit, Thirteen Days) lifts a speculative shroud covering one of Great Britain’s greatest unsolved crimes, viewers are swept into an elaborate—and sordid—conspiracy involving a royal sex scandal, government and police corruption, powerful underworld pimps, spies, lies and double crosses.

Positive Elements

It’s certainly no excuse for his criminal activity, but gruff car salesman Terry Leather (who leads the heist) repeatedly tells his wife, Wendy, that he’s doing one last job to pay off his debts. Then he’s going to leave his unsavory ways behind, he says. Even though he’s unfaithful to her—and it’s impossible to talk about this film’s thin positive themes without such caveats—Terry insists that he loves Wendy. To his credit, I guess, he refuses to run off with ex-girlfriend and co-conspirator Martine Love when she asks him.

For her part, Wendy angrily tells Terry that she committed to him fully when they got married, a vow she’s obviously taken seriously even if he hasn’t.

In the “honor among thieves” category, Terry does his best to free two of his crew when they’re kidnapped by a cold-blooded criminal tycoon named Lew Vogel. Because he has refused to be bribed by Vogel, a local London police officer exhibits a few shreds of integrity (in contrast to many who do not).

Spiritual Elements

One character says, “Lamb of God, forgive us for our sins,” while another makes a mocking reference to his boyhood days in a Catholic school. Someone quips, “Money may be your god, but it isn’t mine.”

Sexual Content

Sexual imagery and references are pervasive in The Bank Job. Ms. Love’s real motivation for wanting to pull off the robbery is to secure compromising photos that depict Princess Margaret in an explicit group-sex romp. A street thug/black power rabble-rouser named Michael X is using the photos to barter his way out of criminal prosecution for various crimes, including assault, drug charges and running a prostitution ring.

The film opens with a scene of a topless woman cavorting with a man and another woman in the ocean. Her breasts—though not her face—are visible several times in that scene and the group-sex scene that follows. She’s shown in bed with at least two other people, one of them perhaps a woman, and one person puts a mouth to her breast. (A photographer outside the window snaps pictures that are displayed several times later in the film.)

Another sex scene also features face-to-breast images, and audiences glimpse the blurry form of a naked woman getting out of bed. One of the guys on Terry’s team talks about acting in porn films; a clip from one film is shown in which two women rub bare breasts on his face. An MI5 agent named Gale is shown beginning to peel her underwear off as a man lifts her up to have sex with her. She implies that she enjoys having sex as part of her undercover work.

A group of English politicians are shown at a brothel where a number of topless women—and others in lingerie—serve them drinks. Bare backsides are visible, too. A dominatrix in lingerie ties up a government official. (Again, someone snaps photos that end up in Terry’s hands and are seen repeatedly onscreen.)

Terry takes a co-worker to a “stag party” at a strip club before his wedding. At it are many topless dancers and waitresses, most of whom are wearing pasties. Martine is strip-searched at the airport; the camera sees her in her bra and underwear.

Terry and Martine kiss in the vault, and later dialogue implies they had sex there. Repeated mentions are made of married men having affairs; it’s alluded to that Martine has been sleeping with at least three different men in a short span of time to get what she wants.

Multiple references are made to prostitution; police officers reportedly receive free oral sex from prostitutes in exchange for leaving a pimp alone. (It’s said that one character is disgusted by this.) Repeated exclamations are made about large sexual organs.

Violent Content

The violence doesn’t kick into high gear until about two-thirds of the way through—but when it does, things turn a decidedly dark corner. One of Terry’s men gets beaten up, then he’s tortured by a man who burns his ankles with an industrial torch; we see his clothing begin to burn and see him screaming. Later he’s shot point-blank in the head.

Another thief is suffocated with a clear plastic bag. A third is stabbed in the back. Michael X kills a female MI5 agent who was trying to infiltrate his inner circle. He makes her stand in the grave he’s dug for her, and we see the machete of one of his thugs coming down on her. (We’re spared its impact.) Her partially buried corpse is later uncovered.

A fistfight finds Terry repeatedly pummeling Vogel with fists, feet and elbows. A similar melee involving Terry and one of Vogel’s henchmen includes a brick being thrown and shots being fired. Men threatening Terry smash windshields of two cars on his lot and take a whack at another. British agents order Michael X’s house burned down after they arrest him.

Crude or Profane Language

Characters spew nearly 30 f-words and 20 s-words. They take God’s or Christ’s names in vain a dozen or so times. And they blast out the c-word twice. (Various other crude slang is also used to reference both male and female anatomy.) British vulgarities “bloody,” “b-llocks, “b-gger” and “w-nker” all make appearances.

Drug and Alcohol Content

Characters drink (beer, hard liquor) and smoke throughout the story. Many scenes take place in pubs or at posh parties. When the thieves discover champagne in a safe-deposit box, they pop a couple corks to celebrate.

Martine is detained at a London airport for trying to smuggle drugs back into England. Mention is made of “ganja” and the fact that Michael X is a drug dealer. Gale calls him “a crazy dope-smoking lunatic pimp extraordinaire.” Vogel says with a straight face that he’s not interested in selling drugs because he feels they are “responsible for the moral decay of the young.”

Other Negative Elements

Virtually every character in this movie is morally corrupt on some level, whether it’s Terry and Co.’s willingness to steal, Martine’s deception and drug smuggling, MI5 agents’ use of Terry to retrieve the photos or various police officers who are on the take from Vogel. From the highest halls of government to the lowest tunnels of the underworld, people are universally depicted as self-serving and morally compromised.

When I was assigned to review The Bank Job , I immediately knew what I was in for. The last Jason Statham film I had the “privilege” of writing about was the odious Crank . And given Statham’s recent trajectory as R-rated action star, my professional opinion was that this would be more of the same.

I was partially right.

Compared to Statham’s recent hard-R adrenaline assaults, The Bank Job actually has something resembling an engaging narrative. Which is why mainstream critics in general are giving it high artistic marks for its take on a famous, unsolved heist that remains imbedded in the British psyche. USA Today ‘s Claudia Puig wrote, for instance, “Imagine a blend of Snatch , Ocean’s 11 and The Italian Job .”

That’s accurate—to a point. Where The Bank Job deviates from the Ocean’s Eleven / Italian Job template is in its extremely explicit content—of which there is no shortage. An opening ménage à trois puts moviegoers on notice that this is no escapist PG-13-rated George Clooney bank-robbery caper. Indeed, frequent, graphic sexual imagery, combined with some savage violence and dozens of harsh obscenities means that The Bank Job ‘s zip code is much closer to War ‘s zone than anything Mr. Clooney and his nouveau Rat Pack cronies ever attempted in Vegas.

OK. I was completely right.

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Bank Job, The (United Kingdom, 2008)

The Bank Job is a heist movie in the classic tradition - it details every aspect of the caper, from its genesis to its aftermath. The fact that there's political intrigue and espionage swirling around the edges only makes it more fascinating. Director Roger Donaldson, whose resume includes films as diverse as Dante's Peak and The World's Fastest Indian , keeps the pace at a high level so even the "down" moments are driven forward by the film's momentum. And, unlike some crime movies that become so fixated on the plot that everything else gets lost in the mix, Donaldson and his screenwriters take the time to develop the characters.

The Bank Job is based on a true story - a daring 1971 robbery that made front page headlines until MI-5 made a D-Notice request that stifled further coverage by the press (on the grounds that it created a danger to National Security), driving it from the newspapers and into myth and memory. While some of the facts are known, there are many gaps in the official record. Screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian Lefrenais, supposedly collaborating with anonymous inside sources, seek to provide caulk for many of those gaps. Some of what appears on-screen in The Bank Job is speculative, but much has the ring of truth and fits in with the facts. Of course, since the names have been changed "to protect the guilty," The Bank Job doesn't provide any shocking revelations about still-living individuals. What it accomplishes, however, is to present a possible autopsy of a crime that has baffled people for decades. And, regardless of whether it's more fact or fiction, it provides an enjoyable two hours.

The Bank Job 's protagonist is Terry Leather (Jason Statham), a typical dodgy East End character. He runs a car-sales garage, is in debt to a loanshark who believes in more than "harsh words" when it comes to repayment, and - perhaps surprisingly - is happily married to the love of his life, Wendy (Keely Hawes). He is a doting father and husband. Enter Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), an old flame-who-might-have-been. When she needs a "villain" to help her with a heist, she approaches Terry with a proposition. She's in possession of information that could net him a lot of money if he can put together a team on short notice to break into the safety deposit vault of a Baker Street bank. With his greed overcoming his good sense, Terry in inclined to believe her but, unbeknownst to him, Martine is not on the level. The puppeteer pulling her strings is an MI5 agent named Tim Everett (Richard Lintern), and he's after the contents of safety deposit box 118 - compromising pictures of Princess Margaret that are being used to blackmail the government. So Terry gathers his crew of six, which includes Martine, a couple of close friends (Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays) and two others, without being aware of what he's really getting involved in.

When one looks back at the plot of The Bank Job from a post-end credits perspective, its complexity is apparent. It weaves together a large number of subplots, including police corruption, MI5 gamesmanship, hard-core criminal activity (including murder and extortion) and, of course, the caper itself. By eliminating flashy cinematography and editing, approaching the material in a clear, chronological fashion, and providing only the details necessary to flesh out crucial aspects of the story, the filmmakers never lose the viewer in a muddle of tangential characters and issues. The audience isn't left for long to wonder about the purpose of the naked water frolic at the beginning or the incorporation of crime lord/activist Michael X into the mix.

For better or worse, this is the kind of character with which Jason Statham has become associated. Over the course of a career begun under the guidance of Guy Ritchie, most of his performances have fallen into this "tough guy" category, so it's impossible to argue with the casting. He's easily the best-known member of the troupe. Some viewers may recognize Saffron Burrows or David Suchet, but neither has a mainstream following. The important thing to note is that everyone disappears into their roles, which is the kind of thing one has come to expect from low-profile British movies. When the entire supporting cast is comprised of character actors, this result is achieved.

Much as I enjoyed Stephen Soderbergh's Oceans trilogy (more for the camaraderie and chemistry of the actors/characters than for the plots), The Bank Job illustrates how much more richness there can be in a heist movie when layers are fabricated into the story and the narrative extends beyond the central caper. When this movie ends, the viewer feels as if he has seen an entire tale unfold rather than merely having been granted the chance to peer through a window at the inner workings of an infamous historical crime. The Bank Job is smart, well-paced, exciting entertainment for adults - something that is more of a rarity than it should be.

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Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that's full of surprises I have no intention of spoiling. I'll say this. In 1971, a robbery took place at Floyds Bank in London that involved a royal sex scandal. The thieves, played here by Brit athlete and model turned credible actor Jason Statham, seductive Saffron Burrows and the cream of Brit character actors, are hustled into robbing the place by higher-ups who are using them just to get their hands on incriminating photos in a deposit box. Director Roger Donaldson keeps the suspense crackling. By the end, you'll want to know more about a heist that literally did shake the empire.

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The Bank Job movie took creative liberties, twisting the facts of the 1971 Baker Street Heist to create a more exciting narrative.
The true story behind the Lloyds bank robbery remains shrouded in mystery, with many unanswered questions even 50 years later.
Pierce Brosnan's documentary series delves into the real events of The Bank Job, showcasing the high-stakes true story behind the heist.

The Bank Job true story is stranger than fiction, so it's little surprise Lionsgate decided to adapt the bizarre events of the 1971 Baker Street Robbery into the equally bombastic 2008 heist film. However, many viewers wonder is The Bank Job accurate, and the answer is complicated. In the movie, the robbery is masterminded by Martine Love, an ex-model who convinces a group to rob a bank containing a safe deposit box owned by radical Black rights activist Michael X, whose contents include compromising photographs of Princess Margaret.

The Bank Job , directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Jason Statham , explores the real-life Lloyds bank robbery of 1971 which took place on Baker Street in London. The value of the goods stolen remains unknown as the police only managed to retrieve a small sum. However, it is estimated the total amount stolen lies between £1.25 and £3 million. The true purpose of the Baker Street heist remains shrouded in mystery too, and The Bank Job true story still has many unanswered questions, even 50 years after it happened.

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The Real Heist That Inspired The Bank Job

The baker street heist explained.

The Bank Job retells the events of the heist and its aftermath in a manner that is fictionalized in more ways than one, most notably regarding the characters portrayed in the movie and how they compare to the real perpetrators. The individual who planned the Baker Street heist, Anthony Gavin , is not portrayed in the movie at all. Instead, a fictional woman named Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) plans the heist and assembles the crew to carry it out .

Anthony Gavin was initially inspired to conduct the heist when he read The Red-Headed League, a short story written in 1891 by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle about the famed detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson's attempt to foil burglars. Gavin and his crew broke into the Lloyds bank by tunneling from a nearby store they rented and used gelignite — known as a blasting jelly — to open a way up into the bank from the ground, unlike in The Bank Job movie.

Gavin's motivations were one thing that The Bank Job movie embellished

They communicated via walkie-talkie with a lookout on the roof. Unfortunately, the walkie-talkie's signal was picked up by Robert Rowlands, an amateur radio enthusiast, who called the police. Initially, the police didn't believe Robert, which gave Gavin and the crew time to escape. It didn't take the police long to find some of the suspects but the money and gear were gone forever. Gavin's motivations were one thing that The Bank Job movie embellished for narrative effect, but there was more.

Heist movies can be some of the best as they combine intelligent planning, witty humor, and creative characters portrayed by a team of actors.

The Bank Job Movie Wasn't Accurate

The uk heist movie altered many details.

It will likely be many more years until the truth is unearthed.

The Bank Job movie alludes to the method used by the original burglars, but it is almost entirely fictionalized. According to the film, compromising pictures of Princess Margaret were being held in one of the safety deposit boxes belonging to Trinidadian radical Michael X, so MI5 set up the burglary to secure the photos . This might explain why the British Government issued a D-Notice which censored any press releases about the robbery and newspapers are under embargo at the National Archives until 2071.

It seems odd the government would go to such lengths to cover up the details of the robbery. Whether it had something to do with Princess Margaret or someone else's personal life, whatever was inside the safety deposit boxes at Lloyd's Bank in 1971 remains unknown to this day. The Bank Job movie's version of events serves to add fictionalized flavor to what happened that night in Central London, and it will likely be many more years until the truth is unearthed.

The best heist movies have a cohesive and remarkable squad to pull off the heist, and these movies have some of the greatest in history.

Pierce Brosnan Made A Documentary About The Real Bank Job Robbery

The james bond star's series delves into the baker street heist.

Pierce Brosnan teamed up with the History Channel to create the series Greatest Heists With Pierce Brosnan . The third episode focuses on The Bank Job true story. Titled "The Baker Street Bank Burglary," the show chronicles the thieves' mission to tunnel underneath the Lloyds Bank and break into a safety deposit box. However, the real focus is the game of cat-and-mouse that ensues when a radio enthusiast inadvertently stumbles upon their walkie-talkie conversation and contacts Scotland Yard.

For those looking to see the realities of The Bank Job true story, Greatest Heists With Pierce Brosnan is a great option.

The episode is one of the highest rated of the series and uses dramatic reenactments to depict the high-stakes true story. For those looking to see the realities of The Bank Job true story, Greatest Heists With Pierce Brosnan is a great option. It doesn't shy away from some of the murkier details of the tale and chronicles the chase between cops and robbers. While The Bank Job focuses on the lead-up to the heist, Greatest Heists tells The Bank Job true story and is an engaging watch for fans of crime history.

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The Baker Street Robbery Was Always Surrounded By Misinformation

Making an accurate version of the story is more-or-less impossible.

Princess Margaret's personal life aside, The Bank Job true story has always been surrounded by misinformation, thanks to the contents of the security deposit box remaining unknown. While The Bank Job took creative liberties, rumors and falsehoods surrounding the case have run rampant over the years, muddying its true events. One rumor is that a government-issued D-notice , a formal request for the media not to cover a specific story due to national security, was brought about.

This has been proven false as the robbery was widely reported. Another rumor that The Bank Job addresses is that the safe deposit box contained photos of Princess Margaret and criminal actor John Bindon, which has again, been debunked. Finally, it has also been said that the safe deposit box had evidence that a conservative cabinet member was abusing children, which was left behind by robbers for police to find.

True story heist films like the A24 movie The Bling Ring are bound to take creative liberties, but The Bank Job true story has always been shrouded in mystery — which makes the extreme creative liberties it takes not only forgivable but fitting.

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The Bank Job

Details: 2008, UK, Cert 15, 111 mins

Direction: Roger Donaldson

Genre: Thriller

Summary: Thriller inspired by a daring, unsolved robbery which took place more than 35 years ago in London.

With: Daniel Mays , David Suchet , Jason Statham , Saffron Burrows and Stephen Campbell Moore

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"secret sins exposed, pornographically".

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(PaPa, B, Ho, LL, VVV, SSS, NN, D, A, MMM) A heavily pagan worldview in which immorality is rampant at all levels of society and, though there are a few honest police willing to oppose evil both in high and low society, many police and elected officials are corrupt, plus light homosexual elements; 16 strong obscenities but seems like more; violence is brief but very disturbing such as white landlord tortured by black racketeer, man is tortured and murdered to get him to talk, woman police informant is murdered with a machete, and some physical fighting; very strong sexual content includes opening scene of what appears to be lesbian sex involving royal family member, another scene features a vile house of prostitution in which major politicians engage in sadomasochism and are secretly filmed, and a third scene features a gangster reviewing a pornographic movie while trying to identify an actor; several prostitutes are shown naked or topless; some alcohol use; some smoking; and, miscellaneous immorality is extreme, including lying, kidnapping, blackmail, robbery, prostitution, police payoffs, torture, and murder.

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THE BANK JOB is a British crime drama in which the high and mighty secretly enlist the low and dirty to rob a bank hoping to retrieve some nasty photos from a safe deposit box. The caper gets out of control when more sleaze than was expected is found in the boxes. Everyone from royalty, to leading politicians, to policemen and gangsters go after the thieves to try to keep their nasty secrets quiet. Sadly, the nasty secrets are pornographically portrayed in the movie, making it unsuitable for viewing by people with good moral values.

On the bright side, the movie clearly shows that engaging in immorality has horrible consequences. Secret sinners, corrupt policemen, nasty thugs, and even the so-called petty thieves themselves all wind up fearing exposure, capture or even death. One thief, who wanted to pull off the job to better support his family, winds up being identified by his own young daughter when the police publically broadcast intercepted communication between the bank robbers.

If you think what you do in the privacy of your bedroom or office is secret, you’re wrong.

God sees all. In fact, He sees right into the heart of your soul. If you even lust, God knows. If you’re proud, greedy, or covetous, God knows. On judgment day we’ll be accountable, but the good news is that God has a plan to forgive us and renew our minds. If you’ll surrender your heart to Him, he can forgive your sins and clean up your desires.

Sadly, while THE BANK JOB shows that even a bank vault cannot hide sin from the world, the movie goes so far in exposing sin that it becomes a pornographic peep show in the process. A good cinematographer can film the story of David and Bathsheeba without making a porn flick. By being too graphic, THE BANK JOB will turn away audiences that might otherwise have been interested in the story.

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1. Create And Stick To A Budget

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Calculate your total monthly income, including your salary and any additional revenue streams. Next, list all your expenses, categorizing them into fixed costs (e.g., rent and utilities) and variable costs (e.g., groceries and entertainment).

Setting clear financial goals is crucial. Define both short-term objectives, like saving for a vacation, and long-term aims, such as building an emergency fund or planning for retirement.

Allocate your funds in a way that covers your expenses while allowing you to save for these goals, ensuring your total expenses do not exceed your income to avoid debt.

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Stick to your budget. Tools like apps and spreadsheets can help you track your expenses and effectively monitor your spending.

Regularly review your budget to adjust for any changes in your financial situation. Be realistic with your goals and allow for occasional indulgences to prevent feelings of deprivation.

Seeking support from a trusted friend or family member can provide accountability and motivation. Following these steps, you can create and maintain a budget that support your financial health and stability.

2. Increase Your Savings By $500

Saving money is a cornerstone of financial security. It provides a cushion for emergencies, helps you achieve your financial goals, and allows you to seize opportunities without relying on credit.

To quickly increase your savings by $500, consider setting up automatic transfers to your account to ensure consistency. You can also cut back on discretionary spending, such as entertainment and dining out, which can free up more funds for savings.

Additionally, you can sell unused items around your home and maximize cashback offers and discounts on purchases.

Remember that setting up a structured savings plan is essential. Define clear, achievable goals, and determine how much you need to save each month to reach your $500 target.

Incorporate this amount into your budget to ensure you are consistently working towards your goal. Regularly review and adjust your savings plan to stay on track, making any necessary changes to your spending habits to support your savings efforts.

3. Pay Off $1,000 Of Debt

This can significantly reduce financial stress and improve your credit score, freeing up funds for other purposes.

Consider the avalanche or snowball methods. Debt avalanche involves paying off debts with the highest interest rates first while making minimum payments on others. This strategy minimizes the amount of interest you pay overall.

Alternatively, the debt snowball method focuses on first paying off the smallest debts to gain momentum and build confidence.

To accelerate the repayment process, you can allocate any extra money, such as tax refunds or bonuses, directly to your debt.

Consolidating high-interest debts into a lower-interest loan can also be beneficial, as it simplifies payments and potentially reduces the total interest paid. You can also negotiate lower interest rates or more favorable payment plans with creditors to ease the burden.

4. Invest $100

Investing is a powerful way to grow your wealth over time, even if you start with a small amount like $100 . The key is to understand the basics and choose the right investment options that align with your risk tolerance and financial goals.

Begin by educating yourself about different types of investments. Stocks, bonds, and mutual funds are common investment vehicles, each with its own risk and return profile.

With $100, you have several options. You can purchase shares in individual companies or invest in exchange-traded funds that offer diversification by holding a basket of stocks. Robo-advisors are another excellent option for beginners, as they provide automated, diversified portfolios.

Starting to invest is pretty straightforward. First, choose a platform that suits your needs, whether it’s a traditional brokerage, an online platform, or a robo-advisor.

Open an investment account with your chosen platform and deposit your $100. Begin by investing in low-cost, diversified options to spread risk and maximize potential returns.

Review your investments regularly and continue to educate yourself on market trends and investment strategies. As you become more comfortable and knowledgeable, you can gradually increase your investments.

5. Review And Optimize Subscription Services

Examine your bank statements to identify all your subscriptions, such as streaming platforms, gym memberships, and software services.

Next, assess the value each subscription provides. Consider how frequently you use each service and whether it justifies the cost. If certain subscriptions are rarely used, it might be time to cancel them. Look for lower-cost or free alternatives that offer similar benefits.

For services you decide to keep, consider downgrading to a more affordable plan if you don’t need all the features of a premium plan. You can also share subscriptions with family or friends for those services that offer multi-user plans.

6. Start A Side Hustle

This is a great way to earn extra income and accelerate your financial goals. Kickstart your search by finding side gigs that complement your skills, interests, and schedule.

Freelancing offers services like writing, graphic design, or web development, with many online platforms connecting freelancers to clients. Another option is selling products online, such as handmade crafts or vintage items, on Etsy or eBay.

The gig economy provides additional income opportunities through rideshare driving, food delivery, or performing on-demand tasks. Tutoring allows you to earn money by leveraging your expertise in a particular subject to help students.

It is crucial to set specific hours for your side hustle to prevent it from interfering with your primary responsibilities. Prioritize tasks to focus on the most important activities, ensuring productivity in both your main job and side hustle. Productivity tools like calendars and task management apps can help you stay organized.

Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is essential to avoid burnout. Ensure that your side hustle enhances your financial situation without negatively impacting your well-being.

7. Enhance Your Financial Literacy

Explore various educational resources. Read books and articles on personal finance to gain valuable insights into money management and investment strategies. You can enroll in online courses or attend workshops that provide structured learning on a wide range of financial topics.

Following financial experts on social media, blogs, and podcasts helps you stay informed about practical tips and current market trends. Engaging with these resources regularly deepens your understanding of financial concepts.

You can also join financial communities, both online and offline, to share experiences, ask questions, and learn from others. These communities offer support and motivation as you work towards improving your financial literacy.

Enhancing your financial literacy will empower you to make better decisions, avoid common pitfalls, and achieve your financial goals with confidence.

8. Schedule A Financial Check-In

Regular reviews allow you to assess your progress toward financial goals, identify areas needing adjustment, and make informed decisions to keep your finances on track.

Decide on the frequency of your financial reviews. Monthly check-ins work well for monitoring short-term goals, while quarterly or annual reviews help evaluate long-term plans.

During each check-in, review your budget to ensure you stay within your spending limits and meet your savings targets. Adjust your budget based on any changes in income or expenses.

Evaluate your debt repayment progress and consider strategies to accelerate payments. Review your investments to ensure they align with your goals and risk tolerance, and rebalance your portfolio if needed.

Use this time to set or adjust financial goals based on your current situation, whether that means increasing your savings target or planning for a significant purchase.

Consider consulting with a financial advisor for a comprehensive evaluation. A professional can provide personalized advice and suggest ways to optimize your financial plan, helping you identify areas for improvement.

Final Thoughts

Transforming your money habits is not an overnight process, but taking on these dares can set you on the right path. Each challenge encourages you to make meaningful changes that will benefit your financial health in the long run.

Embrace these dares, and watch your financial habits evolve and your bank account flourish.

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Cut gas line caused explosion downtown, ntsb says in preliminary review.

Staff photos / Ed Runyan Youngstown Fire Chief Barry Finley talks on his cellphone while NTSB investigator Sheryl Harley talks to Youngstown Fire Department investigator Charles Hodge on Thursday morning as part of an NTSB investigation of the explosion that destroyed the first floor of the Realty Tower downtown. Tuesday afternoon.

YOUNGSTOWN — The National Transportation Safety Board has preliminarily found that a natural gas line in the basement of the Realty Tower that had been cut was the reason for the 2:44 p.m. explosion that destroyed the lower floors of the building Tuesday afternoon and killed a man.

The first floor was occupied by a Chase Bank branch. There are apartments on the upper floors of the building. Two NTSB officials spoke to reporters Thursday at the Holiday Inn in Boardman to describe the investigation that will be carried out in the coming days and months.

They said the NTSB does not investigate every natural gas explosion, but this one appears to bring up issues they are especially concerned about, namely, third-party vendors potentially causing gas explosions and why a not-in-service gas line had pressurized natural gas in it.

Tom Chapman, a member of the NTSB board, said the natural gas provider to the area, Enbridge, and the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, went into the basement after the explosion and found the cut service line, which was inactive but still pressurized. Enbridge is the natural gas utility for the area.

Chapman said inactive service lines should generally not be pressurized and that is one of the areas that will be investigated. He was accompanied at the press conference by Kim West of the NTSB, investigator in charge of the Realty Tower investigation.

Chapman said the Enbridge and the PUCO determined the line was pressurized, then capped the service line and turned off the gas to it. They were accompanied by Youngstown firefighters “because it’s a very dangerous situation,” Chapman said.

Chapman clarified that third-party workers are “someone other than the gas company or public utilities or someone who might ordinarily be working on gas lines.”

When asked about work in the basement, he said “What we know is there was work being done in the basement, reportedly to clear out old infrastructure, artifacts of old infrastructure, such as pipes, such as wire, that sort of thing. That’s what we understand. That’s part of what we are investigating. We have not established that definitively.”

He said, “Preliminary information suggests work crews were present in the basement of the building for the purpose of clearing out old utility infrastructure. A possible third-party cut to the pressurized service line is a central focus of our investigation to determine the cause of the gas release and subsequent explosion.”

Chapman said a goal of the investigation is to determine what the “source” of the cut was. “We do have the line. We know it was cut.” It was a service line coming off of the main line and leading to the property that was ‘essentially abandoned.’ It was not servicing the property at the time,” he said.

When asked whether the cut line suggested an act of “domestic terrorism,” he said no and that “There is no evidence at all that there was anything nefarious about what happened.”

The investigative team will be on scene for about one week. A preliminary report is expected to be published in about 30 days. Final reports from NTSB take from 12 to 24 months to complete, he said.

West and her team will investigate “operations and integrity management, survival factors, emergency response and human performance. With regard to this tragedy, we are particularly interested in issues related to gas line failure and system integrity management, third-party work in the vicinity of gas lines and emergency response,” Chapman said.

Additionally, the NTSB has a specialist in disaster assistance “on scene who will be working closely with the families and local agencies to provide support to those involved,” he said.

The mission of the NTSB is as an “independent federal agency. We are charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the United States and significant accidents in railroad, highway, marine and pipeline.

“Our mission is to understand, not just what happened but why it happened and to recommend changes to prevent it from happening again.” He said the agency will not determine the probable cause of the explosion while they are on scene, “nor will we speculate about the cause. These are the first steps in a lengthy investigative process.”

He said another goal of the NTSB is to issue safety recommendations aimed at preventing future accidents. “We are working closely with the pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, and other federal, state and local agencies,” he said.

He encouraged witnesses or those with information relevant to the investigation, including any video footage, to contact the NTSB by email at [email protected].

When Chapman was asked about potential negligence in the explosion, he said “Our role is not to assign blame or fault. Our role is to determine what happened. We’re just looking to determine what the facts are. Once we determine what those facts are, we will make them available through a final report. There are other forums for determining whether there was negligence.”

He said the NTSB does not “look at all natural gas explosions. We focus our attention on those that we think might have some particular impact in terms of safety, certainly from a national perspective, if there are lessons that can be learned that can be shared with others to make sure we don’t have similar circumstances.

“In this case, we have a longstanding concern about third-party work in the vicinity of gas lines. That is a major element in this investigation. We are also concerned about gas-line-system integrity. Here we have apparently a line that was abandoned and yet pressurized. We want to learn more about why that happened and what we can do to help ensure that doesn’t happen in the future.”

Chapman checked with West a few times while answering questions to make sure she agreed with the way he was stating things, but he otherwise did all of the talking.

He started out his presentation by offering condolences to the friends and families of the “victims of this tragedy.” He commended the law enforcement and first responders who provided emergency response, and the hospital staff who treated the injured.

He said gas leaks or gas-related explosions are “not common,” even in older buildings. “This is particularly catastrophic. We were down there this morning to the site, and the damage down there is stunning. The damage to the building is devastating.”

He added, “When you are up close to it and you see how deep it goes down into the basement area and how much damage there was and the size of the structures that were damaged, it gets your attention.”

When asked how long the gas may have been leaking, Chapman checked with West, who agreed after he said, “It is my understanding it happened very quickly.”

Twenty-seven-year-old Chase Bank employee Akil Drake of the Pittsburgh area died in the explosion. He was a 2019 graduate of Youngstown State University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, according to a 2019 commencement program online. He worked as a relationship banker for Chase.

When asked whether the building can be saved, Chapman said the NTSB does not address those issues. “That is the sort of thing that state and federal authorities determine,” he said, calling the NTSB an “independent federal agency.”

No one is allowed in the building, including the people who lived in the apartments on the floors above the bank.

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