CNET Networks Entertainment GameSpot | GameFAQs | SportsGamer | Metacritic | MP3.com | TV.com
Home | About Metacritic | About Metascores | What's New | Wireless Versions | Discussion Forums | Advertising Inquiries | Contact Us | RSS
Metacritic.com: We Deal With Criticism
     Help
> Switch to Advanced Search  
Film Video/DVD Music Games Books TV
Printer-Friendly Version Email This Page Discuss In Our Forums

Film

Upcoming Release Calendar
Weekend Box Office
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss Film In Our Forums

 

Wide Releases

sort by name sort by score

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

 

Limited Releases

sort by name sort by score

97 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
83 Alexandra
43 Anamorph
35 Babysitters, The
32 Backseat
80 Band's Visit, The
62 Battle for Haditha
47 Bella
63 Blind Mountain
71 Blindsight
47 Boarding Gate
63 Body of War
58 Bra Boys
70 Caramel
54 Cashback
44 Chaos Theory
32 Chapter 27
69 Chicago 10
82 Chop Shop
46 CJ7
78 Counterfeiters, The
30 Cover
48 Dark Matter
35 Deal
61 Dhamma Brothers, The
92 Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The
73 Duchess of Langeais, The
20 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
58 Fall, The
43 Favor, The
58 First Saturday in May, The
57 Flawless
87 Flight of the Red Balloon, The
xx From Within
44 Frontier(s)
59 Fugitive Pieces
41 Funny Games
66 George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
61 Girls Rock!
55 Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
57 Grand, The
58 Hats Off
68 Honeydripper
xx Jack and Jill vs. the World
67 Jellyfish
xx Kiss the Bride
37 Life Before Her Eyes, The
72 Life of Reilly, The
50 Look
65 Married Life
35 Meet Bill
63 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
54 Mister Lonely
52 My Blueberry Nights
71 My Brother Is an Only Child
52 Noise
61 OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
83 Paranoid Park
55 Pathology
48 Penelope
90 Persepolis
62 Planet B-Boy
xx Plumm Summer, A
67 Praying with Lior
46 Previous Engagement, A
72 Priceless
17 Prom Night
69 Redbelt
72 Roman de gare
48 Run, Fat Boy, Run
85 Savages, The
24 Sex and Death 101
66 Shelter
75 Shotgun Stories
40 Sleepwalking
67 Snow Angels
64 Son of Rambow
71 Standard Operating Procedure
76 Stuff and Dough
64 Surfwise
xx Tashan
82 Taxi to the Dark Side
57 Teeth
56 Then She Found Me
55 Tracey Fragments, The
56 Turn the River
72 Tuya's Marriage
83 U2 3D
59 Under the Same Moon
76 Unforeseen, The
xx Unsettled
91 Up the Yangtze
55 Vice
79 Visitor, The
64 Water Lilies
45 Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
57 Without the King
74 Witnesses, The
63 XXY
67 Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The
75 Young@Heart
45 Zombie Strippers

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.



Bank, The
The Cinema Guild

Bank, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 54 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.3 out of 10
based on 15 reviews
Read critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
based on 3 votes
Read user comments
Rate this movie

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring David Wenham, Anthony LaPaglia, Sibylla Budd, Steve Rodgers, Mitchell Butel, Mandy McElhinney, Greg Stone, and Kazuhiro Muroyama

This anti-banking parable tells the story of a brilliant mathematician (Wenham) who has designed a computer program to predict the fluctuations of the world's stock markets. Conflicts emerge when the program comes to the attention of a cunning bank president (LaPaglia).


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Robert Connolly  
DIRECTED BY: Robert Connolly  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: June 17, 2003 
Video: June 17, 2003 
Theatrical: October 25, 2002 
RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Australia / Italy 

Audience Award for Best First Film (tie), 2002 Portland International Film Festival; Best Original Screenplay, 2001 Australian Film Institute

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80
Variety David Stratton
Will connect with anyone who ever had a bad experience with a bank or finance company, and provides a satisfyingly loathsome character in Anthony LaPaglia's engaging protrayal of a corporate shark.
Read Full Review
80
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A hokey but highly entertaining tale of corporate greed that should be especially satisfying if you're pissed off at big business.
Read Full Review
75
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It blends an intriguing concept with a suspenseful plot, and the result is a gripping 103 minutes at the movies.
Read Full Review
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
The film is not without its flaws, but it sports a terrific production design that integrates magically into the story -- as well as another top-notch performance by Anthony LaPaglia.
Read Full Review
75
Miami Herald Marta Barber
The Bank, despite its faulty finale, is a fun and thrilling ride.
Read Full Review
70
LA Weekly Jon Strickland
Like "Wall Street" before it, The Bank never amounts to more than a glossy comic book, and first-time writer-director Robert Connolly stumbles with his plotting and his direction of Wenham.
Read Full Review
70
The New York Times Stephen Holden
The upshot is a whopper of an ending that is as silly as it is satisfying.
Read Full Review
70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
The sleek, well-oiled, well-acted The Bank, while as meaty as a steak, is short on sizzle.
Read Full Review
63
Boston Globe Ty Burr
Handsomely shot and edited, The Bank benefits greatly from the brutal ministrations of LaPaglia,
Read Full Review
50
Chicago Tribune Emily Nunn
Like the film itself, Jim Doyle is smart enough to be engaging and lovely to look at, but he's too one-dimensional to be satisfying.
Read Full Review
50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Though the script's twists and turns are fairly conventional and the Davis subplot is handled in an awkwardly obvious way, first-time feature filmmaker Robert Connolly understands the power of style.
Read Full Review
40
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Polished and visualized with a sharp sense of place, writer-director Robert Connolly's drama is propped up by bogus science (the relationship between stock undulations and the Mandelbrot set is never made plausible), and the characters are paint-by-numbers.
Read Full Review
38
New York Post Megan Lehmann
Despite a crafty premise and a clever kink in the tale that almost saves it, Connolly isn't dexterous enough to achieve the Hitchockian level of suspense the movie needs.
Read Full Review
30
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
LaPaglia brings the hero into a world of greed and compromised values, but his fork-tongued monologues aren't remotely seductive, which makes the ending a foregone conclusion.
Read Full Review
20
Film Threat Vicky Dimitrakopoulos
Neither a stimulating satire nor a serious exposure of the operations of the finance industry.
Read Full Review

What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

david p. gave it a10:
Connolly uses intellect and insight to create a hitchock style suspenseful piece of drama that keeps you guessing to the end - great script.

Mahree D. gave it a 9:
Great viewing at home on VHS. Oh what wicked webs can be weaved and how retribution can be mightier.

Jo C. gave it a 9:
Very clever. An exciting film with an enthralling storyline and an excellent ending. I really enjoyed it.

Discuss this movie in our forums

Return to top of page
Home | FILM | DVD/VIDEO | MUSIC | GAMES | BOOKS | TV | Forums | About Metacritic metacritic.com

About CNET Networks | Jobs | Advertise | Partnerships                                Visit other CNET Networks sites:

Copyright ©2007 CNET Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use