Slick but shallow

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 2004)

The Italian job has some clever bits about high-tech crime. Some jokes even put a smile on my face. The rest is predictable, the story bleak and the acting in no way memorable. But it is a movie that doesn't make you wanna throw your tv in and that's its biggest merit. A bunch of criminals seek revenge for a job in which they were betrayed in Venice. Now they found their man in LA and they want to steal the gold back. Here should be a spoiler warning but as I think you shouldnt see this film Im going to give away the best bit of the movie. They steal the truck with the gold by blowing up the ground underneath it. A trick they pulled with a safe in the beginning of the movie. Pretty impressive? Yeah, but there's not much more to the movie. They lure you with big names who act like s*** in a movie that shouldnt have been made. Use the money for the stunts to hire some scriptwriters!