The Italian Job (2003)
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Enter Stella (Charlize Theron), a beautiful nerves-of-steel safecracker, who joins Charlie and his former gang when they follow the backstabber to California, where they plan to re-steal the gold by tapping into Los Angeles' traffic control system, manipulating signals and creating one of the biggest traffic jams in L.A. history!
A contemporary update of Paramount's 1969 classic, "The Italian Job" features the ever-popular MINI Cooper in state-of-the-art chase scenes down Hollywood's Walk of Fame, through the Metro Rail tunnels and down narrow escape routes only the MINI can go. Full of twists, turns and exciting stunts with armored cars, motorcycles and helicopters, this action-packed thrill-ride takes audiences on wild curves they'll never see coming. -- © Paramount Pictures [Less]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Mos Def, Seth Green
Screenwriter: Donna Powers, Wayne Powers
Producer: Donald De Line
Composer: John Powell
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 24, 2006
HD-DVD Features:
- Red HD Case
- Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound DTS 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound Plus - English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
- Featurettes - 1. "Pedal to the Metal: The Making of THE ITALIAN JOB"
- 2. "Putting the Words on the Page for THE ITALIAN JOB"
- 3. "THE ITALIAN JOB Driving School"
- 4. "The Mighty Minis of THE ITALIAN JOB"
- 5. Deleted Scenes
- 6. "High Octane: Stunts from THE ITALIAN JOB"
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Reviews
This one offers some agreeably mindless fun in which the villains (including Norton) are truly villainous, the payback is satisfying in a purely infantile way, and the familiarity of everything is oddly comforting.
Gary Gray's version is tauter, better made but insufficiently idiosyncratic to attract a cult following.
A passable time-waster ... directed with some grace and snap.
Itresembles a film made up on the fly. The cast, too, are strictly cut from comic books. Don't expect any unconventional endings either.
Heist movies seem pretty quaint and analog in our era where high stakes crime is primarily electronic in nature. But until someone can make embezzlement cinematically interesting, we’re left with theft and this movie just gets away with it.
Gray does a solid enough job behind the camera, although it's clear he feels more at home directing the action sequences than the quieter moments.
Surprisingly gratifying ... In a summer full of computer-generated, nu-metal-accompanied kicks to the midsection, this may be the closest you'll get to drawing room grace.
Cette production estivale est divertissante l’espace d’un instant si l’on ne cherche pas à en trouver les moindres défauts.
This is escapist fare that doesn’t pretend to be Shakespeare. For what it purports to be, I found it entertaining.
This unglamorous approach has the odd effect of making them seem more glamorous -- we’re free to soak up their star quality because there’s no hard sell to fight off.
A light caper movie, with heavy emphasis on the word 'light' -- light plot, light action, light violence, light sex, light humor, light acting.
... workmanlike heist flick with some funny lines and some good (if brief) chases ...
The Italian Job might have been an enjoyable ride if it had even an ounce of creative intelligence.
Memories of the 1960s caper classic are obliterated by this pointless remake, which uncomprehendingly salvages a few elements from the original, while behaving as if no one involved cared or liked it much anyway.
Uma Saída de Mestre faz jus ao original – principalmente por não limitar-se a copiá-lo.
This is a good ole heist film and worth the price of admission.
Go in expecting nothing and you'll end up with more than Caine and his onscreen crew did 34 years ago.
"Wahlberg once again demonstrates his unique ability to suck the colour out of a character like some bloated charisma mosquito."
Peter Collinson's The Italian Job (1969) is not a great film -- it's an average film with a great finale. Oh, and another thing: F Gary Gray's remake blows the bloody doors off it.
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