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Species – Roger Donaldson (1995)

The death of an actor can be a reason to look up a film. Michael Madsen passed away, so last weekend we watched “Die Another Day” and “Species”. Madsen played in a lot of film with very low IMDb ratings, “Species” is rated 5.9. I may have seen it before.

In a laboratorium an alien is bred who is human-looking. When it proves to be dangerous, the child-like-looking alien is about to be gassed, but she gets away. Growing quickly, the alien soon is a sexy full grown woman looking to create offspring.

A bit of action, a bit of thriller, sex scenes as they were always in movies of these days. Quite a stack of actors too, such as Ben Kingsley and Forest Witaker (in a weak role). Not a great film. The IMDb rating is even a bit high.

The Bank Job – Roger Donaldson (2008)

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I wanted something easy and this film with Jason Statham gets quite a rating so I figured this would be a descent crime comedy.

The film is based on true events and in the first part it fires off the different storylines in quite a messy way. When we are properly informed about the characters involved we mostly follow a group of small criminals who are talked into a big bank robbing. They come up with an inventive plan to get into the vault of a bank.

As is known from the start, the robbing does not only involve a few petty criminals getting rich, so when interests start to collide the situation goes out of hand.

“The Bank Job” is an alright crime film of which the biggest surprise is that the slightly unlikely story is supposedly based on true events.