100 Word Movie Reviews: The Italian Job
I’m a sucker for heist movies — the more ridiculous the better. Give me one that has a group of guys hacking in to the Los Angeles Traffic Software and driving Mini-Coopers through subway tunnels along with blowing up a section of Hollywood Boulevard to drop an armored car in to said tunnels and I’m a happy guy.
That said, I was very disappointed in Ed Norton’s character not figuring out to screw with the weights of the three armored trucks such that the heaviest truck was the one NOT carrying the gold. I guess that’s supposed to be part of his character’s “lack of imagination.” It didn’t allow Marky Mark’s character to come up with some ridiculous insight or gut instinct to figure out which truck it was in. “Steve would never drive the truck northwest on a Tuesday. That magnetic properties of the sun would make the gold heavier and the truck would go slower. It’s got to be truck three!!!” Something like that.
Great formulaic heist movie. I need to watch the original.