They are greedy pricks.

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2006)

While the car chase and boat chase was interesting, it doesn't keep the story tight.
Now I'm all for action, and car chases too...but in order to justify their anger, they put thousands of lives at risk just to get even.
In order for this team to complete their goal, they had to cause major destruction and heartache to thousands of people that have no involvement into their personal lives.
Do the other folks who are hindered in traffic due to car accidents and traffic pileups and road constrictions share any of the gold? NO! Do the people injured in the vehicle accidents have to deal with problems resulting from the accident? YES!
Now people's lives are thrown of course, their insurance rates go up. Their personal problems are increased and they just wanted to carry on with their simple lives that had nothing to do with anybody else's gold or murder.
Do people going late to work have to deal with problems due to being held up in the subway or traffic? Yes, they do...but how are they to know why all this trouble for them came about? They don't...but it affects many many people who should not be affected due to greed...and that is what is was all about.
If the team wanted to get even with this guy...there are thousands of ways to do so without disrupting the entire traffic flow and emergency system of the city.
They were selfish and greedy and stupid...all while trying to look cool.
So with Charlize at the wheel and some few chases which were pretty awesome...the rest of the story is pathetic.
The moral? It's OK to screw somebody over as long as you disrupt everybody else's life in order to get what you want.
This story got lost after 25 minutes and somehow the writer thought that to make it interesting, he had to cause major havoc and destruction.
You'll make your own judgment...
My votes are for Charlize and the cars...the plot is thin...
Now there is to be a second film made...why? They got away with 27 million dollars. Is that not good enough? Whya re they so greedy? I found this repulsive overdone Hollywood mentality garbage with pretty scenery blended in to make it easy to swallow.