Lousy lousy job of endless Hollywood clichés

Rating: 1/10 (30 January 2008)

This film is MEDIOCRE MELODRAMA meets MILLS AND BOON.
It features: a bad and lazy script, terrible dialog, cardboard cutout characters, weak casting, major defects in plot detail and credibility, a romance as deep as speed dating, terrible editing of the main chase sequence, a telegraphed romantic ending and throughout it is full of technology silliness.
It also features the moral perspectives that revenge is good, taking revenge turns baddies into goodies, and that stealing from baddies makes what you steal rightfully yours.
No amount of reasonable sets and photography can compensate for the defects.
This is NOT a remake of the 1969 English masterpiece featuring Michael Caine; it is RIP OFF of that title and reputation. People who know and love the real "Italian Job" should sue for damage of memory and mental cruelty.