Studio Acquires U.S.

SEE: `THE BANK JOB' ON DVD Forget "Death Race," the knuckle-dragging Jason Statham vehicle opening today, and check him out in "The Bank Job." A nifty, fact- based, 1970s-London-set caper movie, the film co-stars Saffron Burrows as a femme fatale and David Suchet (TV's Hercule Poirot) as a brutal porn mogul.

By SCOTT A. MAY Trading flash for substance, "The Bank Job" is both straightforward and convoluted, in the best tradition of old-school heist films. Fans of this neglected crime genre will love it.

By Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Mar. 11--Truth to be told, caper movies are a bore.

By MAL VINCENT By Mal Vincent The Virginian-Pilot People with safe deposit boxes often have things in them that they don't want known. This is one of the few original conceits of "The Bank Job," the gritty, raunchy and altogether diverting new crime caper film.