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.
The Italian Job
Get in. Get out. Get even.
2003 · 1h 50m · PG-13
Action, Crime
Directed by
F. Gary Gray
Overview
Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.
Director and cast
- F. Gary Gray Director
- Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker
- Charlize Theron as Stella Bridger
- Edward Norton as Steve
- Seth Green as Lyle
- Jason Statham as Handsome Rob
- Yasiin Bey as Left Ear
- Donald Sutherland as John Bridger
- Olek Krupa as Mashkov
- Stefano Petronelli as Garbageman
- Boris Lee Krutonog as Yevhen
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Itresembles a film made up on the fly. The cast, too, are strictly cut from comic books. Don't expect any unconventional endings either.
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 strangely satisfying though completely preposterous caper movie.
A tricked-out remake of a heist flick that was already flat and formulaic in 1969.
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