More of a snow job, really...

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2003)

After viewing The Italian Job, we understand why Ed Norton distanced himself from this Hollywood whore, saying it was nothing more than contractual obligation that made him take part in this film.
The Italian Job has the attitude, clothes, and hairstyles for a decent Mini Cooper commercial, but the this same approach stinks up a motion picture. And there is so little else here that the movie teeters on tedium at times
Hollywood sure knows how to make gloss, and this picture has buckets of it. Trouble is, that gloss in large amounts becomes rancid goo. The Italian Job is sickeningly sweet from the the first scene, and pours on the glucose all through the film.
Trouble is also that modern movie audiences don't seem to tell a good film from a jelly doughnut. I fear we will see more of this sort of drivel in the future.

The wimpy sensitive new age relationship between the criminals is the excess that puts this movie over the top,successfully pushing it from merely mediocre, into shamefully shallow. Get a dialogue writer, will ya, Gary Gray?