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The Italian Job (2003)
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Reviews Counted:173
Fresh:126
Rotten:47
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Lacks the wit of the original, but it's still a fun ride.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence and some language
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:May 30, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $105,996,316
Synopsis:
The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly... the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) never saw coming was from a member of his own crew....
The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly... the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) never saw coming was from a member of his own crew. After pulling off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice, Italy, Charlie and his gang -- inside man Steve (Edward Norton), computer genius Lyle (Seth Green), wheelman Handsome Rob (Jason Statham), explosives expert Left-Ear (Mos Def) and veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) -- can't believe it when one of them turns out to be a double-crosser. Now the job isn't about the payoff, it's about payback!
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
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Mos Def
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Mos Def, Seth Green, Jason Statham, Donald Sutherland, Franky G.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Director: F. Gary Gray
Screenwriter: Donna Powers, Wayne Powers
Producer: Donald De Line
Composer: John Powell
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for The Italian Job
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.
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.
Go in expecting nothing and you'll end up with more than Caine and his onscreen crew did 34 years ago.
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