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Bank, The
The Cinema Guild
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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

75
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
The Bank, despite its faulty finale, is a fun and thrilling ride.

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.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The upshot is a whopper of an ending that is as silly as it is satisfying.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The sleek, well-oiled, well-acted The Bank, while as meaty as a steak, is short on sizzle.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Handsomely shot and edited, The Bank benefits greatly from the brutal ministrations of LaPaglia,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

20
Film Threat
Vicky Dimitrakopoulos
Neither a stimulating satire nor a serious exposure of the operations of the finance industry.


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