The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.
- Awards
- 9 wins & 21 nominations
Robert van Mackelenberg
- Chairman
- (as Robert Van Mackelenberg)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaSome scenes were actually shot on the uppers floors of a major bank's corporate headquarters in Melbourne.
- GoofsNear the beginning when Toshio is sending a fax he places the pages in the machine face up, yet as the page moves through the machine we can see the logo which clearly shows this machine expects pages to be placed face down. The fax is later shown being read by Simon and has been correctly received.
- Quotes
Simon O'Reilly: I'm like God, with a better suit.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Political Arena (2005)
Featured review
Technically superb, but some credibility problems
It's obvious that the screenwriter/director doesn't much like banks - and not many people do. You're only likely to get friendly attention from them when you have large sums of money to deposit, otherwise you are regarded as one the pests they have to put up with to get enough of the aforementioned type of customer - and they take sizeable fees from you for the privilege. The screenplay here is at its best when fuelling that perception, particularly by the attitudes of the bank's CEO, here portrayed (unnecessarily) as an American being pressured by the bank's directors to make higher profits (having closed most of the branches to achieve that wasn't enough). The guy is greed-driven and doesn't care about people. We get two cases of people's lives being ruined by the bank's loan foreclosures. So far so good. But some things don't quite square with reality - the mentality of bankers generally is not suited to gambling and a CEO isn't likely to test a mathematics whizzkid's theories with real money right at the start. It's improbable that a bank's board would agree to a gamble involving the bank's entire capital. Could the mathematics whizzkid really hide a previous identity so easily, and his real motivation as revealed at the end doesn't go with the ethical disinterest he shows throughout. But the film is very good on a technical level - the science presented (generally) suspends disbelief superbly, the characters are credible, acting passable and the editing is excellent. My acid test of a good film is whether it holds my attention throughout and this film certainly does that. 8 out of 10.
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- Apr 20, 2002
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- Also known as
- Banka - Kelebek etkisi
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $88,414
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,380
- Sep 2, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $1,360,012
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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