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A great action movie
John Bridger, an aging robber, helps out with one last job before passing the reins over to his protégé, Charlie Croker. The job: to steal a safe full of gold bricks from a heavily guarded house in Venice, Italy. The plan goes without a hitch until the team is double-crossed by Steve, one of its own members, who kills Bridger and believes the others dead.
A year later, Charlie's been searching for Steve and the gold bricks and finally tracks them down to Los Angeles. With the aid of Bridger's daughter Stella, a top-notch safecracker working on the right side of the law, the team plots to exact revenge on Steve and to steal back the gold bricks.
I thoroughly enjoyed this film. The script takes a back seat to the action sequences: the opening heist in Venice with a power boat chase through the canals to the Mini Coopers racing through the Metro of LA to the carfeully planned re-routing of armored cars via hacking into the traffic mainframe. The actors work very well together: Donald Southerland as John Bridger; Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker; Charlize Theron as Stella Bridger; Jason Statham as Handsome Rob who has a way with cars and women; Mos Def as Left Ear, an expert safecracker; Seth Green as Lyle the computer genius; and Edward Norton as Steve, the double-crosser.
The DVD extras are prettygood, especially the documentary about the car chase sequence throught he Metro tunnels. This is a fast-paced, exciting movie sure to get your adrenaline pumping
Enjoyable if not fantastic
If you watch this movie remembering that it's a summer movie about a caper, then you'll probably enjoy it. The cast was great, I especially enjoyed Ed Norton, Seth Green and Jason Statham (as "Handsome Rob"). The movie had some extremely humorous parts and was pretty strong as a whole. It reminded me of "Ocean's 11" a little bit, but not quite as good - it didn't have the great twist ending that Ocean's 11 pulled off.
Italian Job definitely had some great gags (Seth Green and Jason Statham are hilarious), and the movie as a whole was definitely enjoyable. Just don't expect too much and you'll like it.
Great Film
This is a movie well worth watching at least once. I won't talk about the plot because its already been discussed in other reviews. It is not a moving or compelling film, just a very excellent action/comedy flick. It gives you plenty of laughs and keeps you on the edge of your seat the first time around. It will keep your adrenaline pumped and the ending, although not amazing, is pretty good. The actors work very well together and Mark Wahlberg does a good job as the leading actor. If you don't want a mindless action film then don't buy this. But if you want something you can soon forget and get plenty of laughs out of then this is the movie for you to see.
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