The Italian Job (2003) Critic Reviews

A pandering, debased, generic little nothing of a movie. And I'm still trying to figure out why I loved it so inordinately. Read the full review

The Italian Job isn't a masterpiece, but it gets the job done.Read the full review

The best car commercial ever, an absolute triumph of product placement, and great fun as a movie in the bargain. Read the full review

Even if it weren't a remake, The Italian Job would still look startlingly unoriginal, but in a summer that promises plenty of sold-out showings, it could be the season's breakout pretty-okay-second-choice film. Read the full review

A fast and furious action-adventure. The film's comedy counts for as much as the clever and risky ways in which Wahlberg and company go after the nasty Norton, who has holed up in a Bel-Air mansion with a world-class security system. Read the full review

It is, as with any cinematic joy ride, not the destination that matters, but the rush of getting there. Read the full review

This is pure entertainment but smart entertainment, plotted and executed with invention and humor and acted by a winning cast radiating good-movie energy. Read the full review

Do yourself a favor and resist The Italian Job, a lazy and in-name-only remake of 1969's G-rated Michael Caine heist pic. Read the full review

There's a fair amount of filler in The Italian Job, but it all boils down to the big heist, which has been staged as if it were Fort Knox being robbed by Evel Knievel. Read the full review