The gritty heist picture The Bank Job has everything adult action fans could want, starting with a grand, fact-inspired gimmick.

We're in swinging England, 1971. To defuse or destroy blackmail photographs of Princess Margaret cavorting in the Caribbean, a slick British secret agent, Tim Everett (Richard Lintern), devises a cocky plan. He coerces a Cockney beauty in a jam, an ex-model named Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), to get a crew of her old friends and local "villains" to rob a Lloyd's Bank in central London. That's where Michael X (Peter De Jersey), a fake revolutionary and genuine racketeer, has stashed the photos in a safe-deposit box.

The Bank Job (Lionsgate) Starring Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows. Directed by Roger Donaldson. Rated R for sexual content, nudity, violence and language. Time 111 minutes.