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| The Bank
Year: 2001
Classification: Drama
Directed:
- Robert Connolly
Financial Thriller
"The Bank" is a tight excellently executed Australian film. David Wenham stars as Jim Doyle, a math wizard that's come up with BTSE, an experimental banking program. Wenham has caught audiences' eye as the transvestite playwright in "Moulin Rouge" and as "Faramir" in the two final "Lord of the Rings" films. Here he absorbs into the role as a brainy math guy whose ultimate tale of revenge has a long burning fuse that pops at the film's stunning climax. The romantic angle comes as he falls for Michelle played by newcomer Sibylla Budd.
Anthony LaPaglia from TV's "Without A Trace" achieves great intensity as the buy & sell businessman Simon O'Reilly whose heart is money. The film's message of corporate responsibility is driven home with the subplot of the bank foreclosing on Wayne & Diane Davis' loan. Blond Steve Rodgers does a nice job as the father bereft by his son's death in a tragic accident as a result of the bank foreclosure. His revenge scene with LaPaglia at the end is brilliantly out of control. Mitchell Butell as the lawyer Stephen does a nice job as the pro bono lawyer who tries to help the couple. This is a first director/screenwriter job for Robert Connelly who keeps the tension flowing, the dialogue pointed & economical, and the visual images of the bank and the lavish home of LaPaglia memorable. This is a small film, but an excellent one, well worth an evening's entertainment. Enjoy!
Comment on Lleu Christopher's review
"Australian stereotype of Americans" - I think this is not the subject in the movie. I think the movie shows accurate stereotype of people who run big American or international (not only American) corporates. Also people who are connected to IMF or World Bank. They are greedy, merciless, cynical and vulgar. The have no problem to cheat and ruin other hard working people. They have no problem to ruin other weak countries. These are people like former Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and Arthur Andersen executives.
Engrossing
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, which has great acting and a good plot with several twists and constant suspense
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