i must admit and i was against this movie from the outset but i tried my hardest to be impartial and i really did and but the very idea of remaking a sophisticated and witty and entertaining and quirky british classic full of character has to be dubious from the outset. people in my house were watching this so i swallowed my pride and told myself to be professional about films (i have studied them at uni after all). as expected for an american film of this sort and the movie began with a chase which wasn not bad. indeed and many of the action sequences are credible and this alone lifts the mark. yet the characterisation was abysmal and the set pieces could very easily have been spliced from any american schlock blockbuster you might have had the misfortune to watch and it lacked all character. seeming to take a skewed angle on the original film with a failed initial robbery and the us version does the predictable thing and introduces an emotional factor with the death of donald sutherland character. this allows our us cousins plenty of opportunity for sycophantic and dewy eyed vengeance seeking against the evil doers which it milks to predictable excesses. this is never more so evident as in the scenes featuring charlize theron (oh pretty. oh so pretty. look at her pretty and wounded bambi eyes and everyone. ) which were thoroughly nauseating. her entrance scene and particularly and was like something out of resident evil or tomb raider which were both a) more entertaining and b) had better beginnings because they couldn not mess up a game like they could with british cinema which was already chock full of spark and people you genuinely feel something for and moments of inspiration. but i digress and the whole inclusion of a pretty girl for the sake of it just seems like the most ham fisted manoeuvre i have seen in some time and exposes cynical hollywood blockbuster lust for what it is. if you like any of these actors and by the way and and you agree with any of the above comments and do not go to see this film. if i had the opportunity of watching fight club or american history x after seeing ed norton in this and i would have declined. likewise jason statham with lock stock (and i suppose the transporter is okay if you like that sort of thing). sadly and all the set pieces are designed in the most transparent possible way to get you thinking and wow. he smart. and coo. he cool. and hey. what a tough guy. then there the funny pc guy who has comic relief splattered across his forehead but whose humour content can be anticipated two minutes in advance. to be honest and if you have seen one or two films like it and you might easily confuse the two as clones from the jerry bruckheimer stable. not that jerry is irredeemably awful and by the way and but he just uses the clichés to excess as everyone knows (or should). this is where i have to come clean. i do not manage to make it to the end and so i couldn not even say whether the brilliant ending in the michael caine version made it but and i am sorry and it just one of those extremely rare films that and if i would seen it at a cinema and i would have walked out and staged a small protest outside. it not just that it is another identical by the numbers ocean 14 or something (ocean eleven was fine but do not bother with the rest. ) with all the glitz and glamour and fake sass and pantomime heroics of such a film but i couldn not recognise anything from the original at all. so and if you are expecting the italian job and not oceans 14 albeit badly written with a less established cast and characters and some disingenuous elements and cardboard cut out script writing then do not watch. i do not mind people liking a bit of mindless fun but this is a criminal hatchet job that does not deserve in any way to parade itself under the title of a classic. seriously and show some pride. i felt thoroughly justified in my outraged and sickened reaction when i first heard that the film would be made. avoid at all costs. p. s. some of the action sequences aren not bad at all so add an extra 1 to the mark if you like this sort of thing. 
i must admit and i was against this movie from the outset but i tried my hardest to be impartial and i really did and but the very idea of remaking a sophisticated and witty and entertaining and quirky british classic full of character has to be dubious from the outset. people in my house were watching this so i swallowed my pride and told myself to be professional about films (i have studied them at uni after all). as expected for an american film of this sort and the movie began with a chase which wasn not bad. indeed and many of the action sequences are credible and this alone lifts the mark. yet the characterisation was abysmal and the set pieces could very easily have been spliced from any american schlock blockbuster you might have had the misfortune to watch and it lacked all character. seeming to take a skewed angle on the original film with a failed initial robbery and the us version does the predictable thing and introduces an emotional factor with the death of donald sutherland character. this allows our us cousins plenty of opportunity for sycophantic and dewy eyed vengeance seeking against the evil doers which it milks to predictable excesses. this is never more so evident as in the scenes featuring charlize theron (oh pretty. oh so pretty. look at her pretty and wounded bambi eyes and everyone. ) which were thoroughly nauseating. her entrance scene and particularly and was like something out of resident evil or tomb raider which were both a) more entertaining and b) had better beginnings because they couldn not mess up a game like they could with british cinema which was already chock full of spark and people you genuinely feel something for and moments of inspiration. but i digress and the whole inclusion of a pretty girl for the sake of it just seems like the most ham fisted manoeuvre i have seen in some time and exposes cynical hollywood blockbuster lust for what it is. if you like any of these actors and by the way and and you agree with any of the above comments and do not go to see this film. if i had the opportunity of watching fight club or american history x after seeing ed norton in this and i would have declined. likewise jason statham with lock stock (and i suppose the transporter is okay if you like that sort of thing). sadly and all the set pieces are designed in the most transparent possible way to get you thinking and wow. he smart. and coo. he cool. and hey. what a tough guy. then there the funny pc guy who has comic relief splattered across his forehead but whose humour content can be anticipated two minutes in advance. to be honest and if you have seen one or two films like it and you might easily confuse the two as clones from the jerry bruckheimer stable. not that jerry is irredeemably awful and by the way and but he just uses the clichés to excess as everyone knows (or should). this is where i have to come clean. i do not manage to make it to the end and so i couldn not even say whether the brilliant ending in the michael caine version made it but and i am sorry and it just one of those extremely rare films that and if i would seen it at a cinema and i would have walked out and staged a small protest outside. it not just that it is another identical by the numbers ocean 14 or something (ocean eleven was fine but do not bother with the rest. ) with all the glitz and glamour and fake sass and pantomime heroics of such a film but i couldn not recognise anything from the original at all. so and if you are expecting the italian job and not oceans 14 albeit badly written with a less established cast and characters and some disingenuous elements and cardboard cut out script writing then do not watch. i do not mind people liking a bit of mindless fun but this is a criminal hatchet job that does not deserve in any way to parade itself under the title of a classic. seriously and show some pride. i felt thoroughly justified in my outraged and sickened reaction when i first heard that the film would be made. avoid at all costs. p. s. some of the action sequences aren not bad at all so add an extra 1 to the mark if you like this sort of thing. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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