The Italian Job was an outstanding film. After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker(Mark Walberg) and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally. This was based off of the screenplay written by Troy Kennedy-Martin for the 1969 version, while Donna and Wayne Powers wrote the screenplay for this version. It was directed by F. Gary Gray who has directed things such as A Man Apart and The Negotiator.
This film starts off with John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) talking to his daughter Stella (Charlize Theron) telling her that he is going to do one more job and then he is out. He is with Charlie Croker and they assembled a team for one last heist to steal $35 million in gold bars from a heavily guarded safe two stories up in a building in Venice, Italy. After successfully pulling off the heist, one of the team members, Steve (Edward Norton), who has no imagination and is driven by greed, plans to take the gold for himself and take out everyone from the group. Thinking that his plan was successful he takes the gold to L.A. and goes on with his life. Charlie and those who survived follow Steve L.A. to get back what Steve stole from them. Charlie enlists the help of John Bridger's daughter, Stella who now is a professional safe cracker. With Stella and the computer genius Lyle (Seth Green), the explosives skills of "Left Ear" (Mos Def), and the driving skills of "Handsome" Rob (Jason Statham) this new team plans to execute a heist from Steve's house while he is on a date with Stella but when that goes sour they must plan to execute a daring heist that weaves through the freeways and subways of L.A.
I loved the opening scene where they set up to originally steal the gold. Setting that all up and making them believe that the safe was in the boat was amazing. Then the boat chase was awesome and fun to watch, I could watch that scene multiple times it was that fun and that was all just the opening scene. When Charlie and his team was betrayed it was very smart thinking on Charlies part to use the scuba tanks from the heist to keep him and his team alive under water long enough to survive the gun attack. After that scene it jumps to LA and Stella who is working as a professional safe cracker. I don't know what it is about seeing her driving a mini cooper but its just amazing how that car can move in and out of traffic with ease. Then we get to the part I like the best and that involves the photo below I enjoyed it because I can relate. He says "this dude got dogs I don't do dogs, I had a real bad experience" then Charlie asks what happen and he says "I had a real bad experience... Im deaf"
This cast was amazing together, they worked well as a team and it was enjoyable to watch. Mark Walberg was great as the leader of this group, and the team really worked well with him. Seth Green just fit perfectly into that computer geek role because how he portrayed that role is exactly what I envision when I think of a hacker. Without giving to much away I will just say the rest of the cast was amazing because they were. The car chase scenes were so awesome that I couldn't take my eyes away because I was afraid I was going to miss something and the same goes for that opening boat scene as well.
Overall I would give this film a B+. There were a few scenes even though I enjoyed them I felt that they were a little impossible to actually pull off for anyone making feel fake where as the rest of the film felt real to me. So if you haven't seen The Italian Job yet then I suggest you check it out!
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