The Italian Job
Netflix | Amazon
Overall Rating: 7/10
Meets Expectations: +1
Apparent Rating: 8/10
When it has been on TV, I have seen various parts of The Italian Job. I never managed to watch all of it straight through though. (This review refers to the 2003 movie with Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Charlize Theron, Seth Green, Donald Sutherland, and others.) I enjoyed the parts I watched enough to add the movie to my Netflix queue. I was pleasantly surprised that the whole movie was good.
I enjoyed this throughout, with the complicated caper, the double-crossing, the vengeance, the complicated plans, the way modern technology was used. All the actors were good. The final epilogue bit they did was good. It was just really nice throughout.
I had thought I didn’t like Charlize Theron, but it appears I have her confused with someone else, Uma Thurman. This woman did not have a mouth wide enough to use her head as a Muppet. We are not constantly told she is attractive, though there is evidence the male characters think so. But unlike Uma Thurman, when there is a man looking at Charlize Theron’s body, I’m not having the wheels fall off the brain in my head because I’m mentally picturing Grover’s purple fake-fur body and hinged face.
The whole mini-Cooper thing is kind of stupid, but it was also kind of cute. The explanation as to why they chose those cars makes a lot more sense when the movie isn’t edited to fit in the time allotted.
I like really well written and well done action movies. The Italian Job was one.
