The Italian Job: Nothing but action, humour, great music and sexy actors!

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2004)

An explosive expert, a computer genius, a premier wheelman and a guy with a plan. All with only one ultimate goal: get the gold from the guy who killed their (spiritual) father.
The movie starts in beautiful Venice, where someone package a silver necklace to send it to America. John Bridger calls with his daughter Stella and after that I fell in love. Mark Wahlberg, as Charlie Croker, comes on stage, naive, contented and with a little smile on his face. Charlie, John and their cast going to steal a safe with many, many gold bar's in it. They don't use weapon's, but that won't be necessary, cause Mark made their plan. Nothing can go wrong, and practically nothing goes wrong.
Up in the mountains the gangsters celebrate their victory with for everyone a bottle champagne and beautiful dreams about women and the perfect live. On the way back home - listen here careful to the music - they laugh about what they did, but they get stopped by guys who knew what the gang was doing. It ends totally wrong. Their gold gets stolen and John gets killed. They end up with nothing but wet clothes and tears...

One year later - Philadelphia
Stella Bridger works as a safe technician. She's happy and contented, but that Charlie Croker comes by to tell her they found the guy who killed her father. Charlie is planning to rob that guy, called Steve Frezelli now, and to steal all his left gold bar's. First Stella doesn't want to help him, but that night, when Charlie and his wheelman-friend Handsome Rob are playing basketball, she calls Charlie to tell him she's in.
Not only Stella and Charlie are in, but also Lyle, a computer genius who really invented Napster, Left-Ear, an explosive expert and Handsome Rob, a premier wheelman are part of the gang. With the newest technology our hero's can do anything they want. They open safe's without a key, making every traffic-light turn red or green and drive with mini-coopers through little subway's.
The Italian Job has got everything a perfect movie needs; a good story, action, humour, great music and good looking, great actors who bring this movie to a good end. The only thing missing is a thrilling love-scene and maybe some real romance, but a little Mark Wahlberg, some Charlize Theron and a few imagination can do miracle's..!