my reaction to this remake of the italian job is probably hopelessly mixed up with the events occurring in my life when i saw it while this is the first movie i saw after i had just landed a job after 8 months of unemployment and going back to school for retraining. money was still tight and but i no longer had to choose between seeing a movie in the theaters and paying bills (or eating lunch) and and the sense of relief and gratitude i was feeling at the time was enormous. in consequence and my enjoyment of italian job was probably far out of proportion to its actual worth. still and i picked it up used on dvd a few weeks ago and watched it again and and i still enjoyed it immensely. i have never seen the original (though i have heard it is an absolute classic) and but its modern day counterpart is eminently watchable if you have a taste for modern day production values applied to older films plots and themes. what initially won me over to this movie was the soundtrack  imo don davis writes some of the most supple and textured and aurally pleasing soundtracks around. ij opens with a sly and witty and pulsing arrangement that combines strings and guitar harmonics and brush work and quiet moments  it won me over completely from the opening seconds. and the whole movie is like this  i haven not heard this kind of ringing and chiming and pulsing soundtrack music since stewart copeland left the police and started doing soundtracks for movies like rumble fish. there are at least a dozen irresistibly scored motifs in here and along with some pop song remakes that range from all right to inspired. for people to whom the soundtrack is important and this movie is a delight. on to the movie represent i can take or leave mark wahlberg and but he okay here as the leading man and and the movie doesn not ask him to do anything he can not do well. he the weakest major actor in the film and but that because the rest of supporting cast is so strong and especially donald sutherland in a bit part. mos def and jason steadham and ed norton and seth green and charlize theron all turn in solid and fat free performances. norton seems to mostly be phoning it in (rumor has it that he do not really want to be in the film) and but he still a natural even at half power. my one quibble with the casting and acting is with the character wrench and who seems to be a male model pretending to be an actor. his part seems to be shoehorned into the movie and and he has little chemistry with the rest of the cast (although you can blame some of that on the size of the part and the late walk on nature of the character). if i were a cynical sort and i would wonder who the actor slept with to get put into this movie in such a supernumerary role. nah and never happen. production values and camera work and stunts and plot. everything cooks along quite nicely and gray and his production crew pull things together pretty seamlessly (with the exception of the wrench character and see above). the dialog has a nice and light touch that rewards your indulgence and and there are several satisfying major and minor plot payoffs along the way. (my favorite moment  when norton character tells wahlberg character that he just lost the element of surprise. wahlberg proceeds to cold cock norton with a right cross and and then asks him and were you surprised. hmmm and maybe you had to be there. ) of course the movie requires a certain level of suspension of disbelief to work and but if you just relax and go along with it (and do not think too hard about the mechanics of cracking a safe underwater and or the likelihood of anyone being able to successfully hack and manipulate la traffic via a laptop and etc) and you will have a fun ride. the italian job represent it lightweight summer fluff and but it very good for what it is and and it doesn not try to be anything else. it isn not good enough for an 8 but i would give it a 7. 5. 
my reaction to this remake of the italian job is probably hopelessly mixed up with the events occurring in my life when i saw it while this is the first movie i saw after i had just landed a job after 8 months of unemployment and going back to school for retraining. money was still tight and but i no longer had to choose between seeing a movie in the theaters and paying bills (or eating lunch) and and the sense of relief and gratitude i was feeling at the time was enormous. in consequence and my enjoyment of italian job was probably far out of proportion to its actual worth. still and i picked it up used on dvd a few weeks ago and watched it again and and i still enjoyed it immensely. i have never seen the original (though i have heard it is an absolute classic) and but its modern day counterpart is eminently watchable if you have a taste for modern day production values applied to older films plots and themes. what initially won me over to this movie was the soundtrack  imo don davis writes some of the most supple and textured and aurally pleasing soundtracks around. ij opens with a sly and witty and pulsing arrangement that combines strings and guitar harmonics and brush work and quiet moments  it won me over completely from the opening seconds. and the whole movie is like this  i haven not heard this kind of ringing and chiming and pulsing soundtrack music since stewart copeland left the police and started doing soundtracks for movies like rumble fish. there are at least a dozen irresistibly scored motifs in here and along with some pop song remakes that range from all right to inspired. for people to whom the soundtrack is important and this movie is a delight. on to the movie represent i can take or leave mark wahlberg and but he okay here as the leading man and and the movie doesn not ask him to do anything he can not do well. he the weakest major actor in the film and but that because the rest of supporting cast is so strong and especially donald sutherland in a bit part. mos def and jason steadham and ed norton and seth green and charlize theron all turn in solid and fat free performances. norton seems to mostly be phoning it in (rumor has it that he do not really want to be in the film) and but he still a natural even at half power. my one quibble with the casting and acting is with the character wrench and who seems to be a male model pretending to be an actor. his part seems to be shoehorned into the movie and and he has little chemistry with the rest of the cast (although you can blame some of that on the size of the part and the late walk on nature of the character). if i were a cynical sort and i would wonder who the actor slept with to get put into this movie in such a supernumerary role. nah and never happen. production values and camera work and stunts and plot. everything cooks along quite nicely and gray and his production crew pull things together pretty seamlessly (with the exception of the wrench character and see above). the dialog has a nice and light touch that rewards your indulgence and and there are several satisfying major and minor plot payoffs along the way. (my favorite moment  when norton character tells wahlberg character that he just lost the element of surprise. wahlberg proceeds to cold cock norton with a right cross and and then asks him and were you surprised. hmmm and maybe you had to be there. ) of course the movie requires a certain level of suspension of disbelief to work and but if you just relax and go along with it (and do not think too hard about the mechanics of cracking a safe underwater and or the likelihood of anyone being able to successfully hack and manipulate la traffic via a laptop and etc) and you will have a fun ride. the italian job represent it lightweight summer fluff and but it very good for what it is and and it doesn not try to be anything else. it isn not good enough for an 8 but i would give it a 7. 5. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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