Fun

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 2003)

`The Italian Job' was entertaining. The two capers were inventive and exciting and the product placement car scenes were fun. The acting was okay. There wasn't a whole lot you could do with the trite dialogue. It was an action movie. When there wasn't action on the screen the movie lagged. Charlize Theron was sufficiently babish to sustain interest in non-action scenes. The characters were a clichéd lot of movie types. The computer hacker stereotype allows for awkward plot developments to be remedied with five key strokes. Overall the movie did its job of providing good summer entertainment. The pace was, mostly, fast and the characters were appealing. Worth a watch.