good flick to watch with parents

Rating: 8/10 (21 November 2003)

SPOILER! My parents were in town the last weekend of June, so we caught two movies. We saw Bruce Almighty and Italian Job. I think we all like Italian Job more.
It was a good little action flick. Even though I am sick of seeing Mark Walberg in movies, I enjoyed this movie. It starts with a safe heist by a group of hi-tech thieves. The group is double-crossed by a member of the team played by Edward Norton. The team re-groups and decides it is time to take action and get back the stolen gold that should have been theirs in the first place.
They scope out the house make a plan to rob the person that double-crossed them. He finds out, so they must change the plan to steal the money during transport. The plan involves blowing out the road and dropping the armored transport onto the subway. It is pretty ingenious and original and the movie stays fast paced with car chases. I love the Mini's in the movie. There is a car chase in the movie motorcycles chase the Mini's throughout the bottom of the subway system, and the Mini's are later chased by helicopter in the air. I think the next car I get will be a Mini. I probably cannot afford the Americanized, high priced model. I would love to get my hands on an original low priced European model, (like Mr. Bean's car). In the end they get the gold and live out their dreams. 8/10, but then again I am the drunken_critic.