The Italian Job Reviews

Exciting heist film for teens and their families.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It is in Gray's spirited execution that such by-the-book formula makes for a brisk, slick entertainment hits the summer movie spot.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

This is one of those popcorn action flicks that will leave a smile on your face from beginning to end.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The Italian Job turns out well, a fast and entertaining caper designed to give you a couple of fun hours.

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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.

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Gary Gray's version is tauter, better made but insufficiently idiosyncratic to attract a cult following.

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Gray adds some zip to this remake of the 1969 Michael Caine caper flick, but despite two clever action sequences and some uncharacteristically tight performances from his cast (most notably Charlize Theron and Mark Wahlberg), the con remains the same.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A passable time-waster ... directed with some grace and snap.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

F. Gary Gray has crafted a fun summer film packed with action, comedy, and a talented ensemble cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

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This is escapist fare that doesn't pretend to be Shakespeare. For what it purports to be, I found it entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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.

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Uma Saída de Mestre faz jus ao original - principalmente por não limitar-se a copiá-lo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

This is a good ole heist film and worth the price of admission.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Go in expecting nothing and you'll end up with more than Caine and his onscreen crew did 34 years ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 3.5/5

The caper movie may be tired, as is Hollywood itself - hence its passion for retro. But this one, happily, is not so much remake as refreshment.

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