2003

June 10, 2003
Century 22
USA / France / UK
English
104 minutes

Get In. Get Out. Get Even. -- THE ITALIAN JOB.

The suspension of disbelief isn't overwhelming in this one. It is enjoyable as a caper film or a revenge flick. Plus Charlize Theron is not entirely hard to look at. The gang has a leader, Marky Mark, a demolition guy, a driver, a computer geek (Seth Green), and a safecracker, Theron. Putting aside usual film problems, like how the entire group keeps an open cell connection as they careen around town in Mini Coopers when you can't continue a conversation with your girlfriend for ten minutes on the way home from work. The locations are good, the capers are creative. Not entirely mindless fun.

*** Ebert
*** Berardinelli

6.2 Critical Consensus