History Film / TheBankJob

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The major villains - Vogel, Michael X, and the corrupt cops - are arrested and punished for their various crimes. Terry gets to pay off his debts, reconcile his desires for Martine, and keep his family. But half of Terry's crew is killed off, along with the female MI5 operative who tried to infiltrate Michael X's group.]]

** [[spoiler:Gale, the MI5 operative, sleeps with a member of Michael X's crew as part of her cover. After the heist is reported, Michael's paranoia drives him to kill them both.]]

* TheInfiltration: Gale Benson. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well]].

* MenacingHandShot: Michael, upon hearing about the bank robbery, walks into his brother's room, where he and Gail are sleeping, and looks over her with a focus on his clenched fist. Although he doesn't hit her, it's clear that he's become suspicious of her.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Make that very, very loosely. It's true that there was a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_robbery robbery at the Baker Street branch]] of Lloyds in 1971, most of the robbers' walkie-talkie chatter was recorded by a ham radio operator who convinced Scotland Yard to check every nearby bank as the robbery was happening, there was a security hold placed on the story silencing the media, and several of the characters were real people (or at least clear fictionalizations of real people). But a lot of the plot elements (and a few major characters) are just conjecture/invention on the part of the filmmakers.

* DirtyCop: Take your pick, but mainly Gerald Pyke. Averted with HonestCop Given, who gets the list of dirty cops from Terry and uses it to clean house during the movie's epilogue.

* OneLastJob: Terry promises his wife that this will be the score that will set them up for life, and he'll never commit another crime again.

%%* TheCaper: With a dash of political thriller thrown in.

* ContrivedCoincidence: MI5 is stuck post-robbery with the realization that the whole caper could go public and could get very messy for the people they were trying to protect. As luck would have it, Terry's crew also robbed the blackmail materials of a local madam, who convinces one of her victims -- a Member of Parliament -- to request a security hold on the press, giving MI5 the political cover to hush it all up.

%%* DirtyCop: Take your pick, but mainly Gerald Pyke.
%%* FanService: a lot of it, much explicit.
%%** LingerieScene
%%** NaughtyNurseOutfit A woman wears one a sleazy nurse costume in the porn film Dave is in.
%%* FemmeFatale: Martine.

%%* JurisdictionFriction

* TheCaper: With a dash of political thriller thrown in.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Complete with a [[DirtyCop bent copper]] [[PassThePopcorn eating beer nuts]] as he looks on.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Dave Shilling, who dabbles in pornography, is the first of the gang to die. [[JustifiedTrope Arguably justified]], in that the man who has him killed only recognises him because he had been the one producing said films.]]
** [[spoiler:Gale, the MI5 operative, sleeps with a member of Michael X's crew as part of her cover. After the heist is reported, Michael's paranoia drives him to kill them both.]]
* DirtyCop: Take your pick, but mainly Gerald Pyke.
* FanService: a lot of it, much explicit.

** NaughtyNurseOutfit A woman wears one a sleazy nurse costume in the porn film Dave is in.

* TooDumbToLive: Oh, Dave.

* AngryBlackMan: Michael X, though he's actually a sociopath who uses black activism as a cover for his criminal activities.
** The movie suggests the whole caper [[spoiler:to steal Michael X's damaging photos of a member of the Royal family]] is to end the blackmailing threats he'd made to get the authorities to back off his gangster activities.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Almost every character in this movie is morally ambiguous at best and pure evil at worst - Det. Sgt. Given, the HAM radio operator, and Terry's daughters are really the only two exceptions.

** The movie suggests the whole caper [[spoiler:to steal Michael X's damaging photos of a member of the Royal family]] is to end the blackmailing threats he'd made to get the authorities to back off his gangster activities.

%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* BiggusDickus: Dave. Played for laughs at first, but [[spoiler: eventually it leads to his demise when Vogel recognizes him as one of his former porn actors]].

%%** NaughtyNurseOutfit (the porn film)

* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Terry [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicking the living crap out of]] sixty-year-old, kidney-stone-ridden Vogel.]] "This one's for Dave!"

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Almost every character in this movie is morally ambiguous at best and pure evil at worst - Given and the HAM radio operator are really the only two exceptions.
* BlackMail: All ''over'' the place. Leather uses it to get his friends out of trouble after they get in way over their heads, Tim and Martine were planning it from the beginning, and Vogel gets in on the act after Sophie starts blackmailing ''him''.