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Navigate to Film Reviews by Alpha The Italian Job(2003)
The all-too-brief on-screen time of Donald Sutherland invades the story, and amusing references to the original film are also peppered throughout, such as the mini-coopers and the traffic-light interference, plus an apperance of Michael Caine on the wide-screen tv purchased by the oily baddie, . The stunts were well-executed, and even the cameo roles and secondary characters were well-drawn, given some nice lines and actually helped draw the story along. I was taken with the way the gang's weaknesses as well as their strengths were acknowledged, while those weaknesses were not simple plot devices to prefigure failure.
While this so-called re-make avoids any bound-to-founder attempt to copy the original, it also misses the masterstroke of the original, which was the cliff-hanger (literally) ending, which gave the story it's moral tone. The theives didn't necessarily get away with it... And this in the days before every film had a sequel (or several). Extra special note: this film has no swearing in it. What a nice change! I still believed that the baddies were bad. Didn't need to be Joe Pesci to convince me - I think that's called acting, isn't it, Mr Pacino?
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