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04/29/09
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.
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.... [More]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Mos Def
Director: F. Gary Gray
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10/18/08
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.
05/06/08
Top CriticGary Gray's version is tauter, better made but insufficiently idiosyncratic to attract a cult following.
05/06/08
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12/27/07
A passable time-waster ... directed with some grace and snap.
09/24/07
Itresembles a film made up on the fly. The cast, too, are strictly cut from comic books. Don't expect any unconventional endings either.
02/09/06
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.
12/06/05
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.
03/05/05
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.
01/21/05
Cette production estivale est divertissante l’espace d’un instant si l’on ne cherche pas à en trouver les moindres défauts.
12/16/04
This is escapist fare that doesn’t pretend to be Shakespeare. For what it purports to be, I found it entertaining.
10/07/04
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.
08/07/04
Top CriticA light caper movie, with heavy emphasis on the word 'light' -- light plot, light action, light violence, light sex, light humor, light acting.
03/02/04
... workmanlike heist flick with some funny lines and some good (if brief) chases ...
10/28/03
The Italian Job might have been an enjoyable ride if it had even an ounce of creative intelligence.
10/05/03
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.
10/01/03
Uma Saída de Mestre faz jus ao original – principalmente por não limitar-se a copiá-lo.
09/29/03
This is a good ole heist film and worth the price of admission.
09/23/03
Go in expecting nothing and you'll end up with more than Caine and his onscreen crew did 34 years ago.
09/22/03
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