The support cast isn't much better. Jason Statham just repeats his Transporter role, while the permanently grumpy Norton has made it clear his participation was a result of contractual obligation...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 7, 2022

...a seriously lazy would-be blockbuster that's nevertheless affable and breezy enough to warrant a mild recommendation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 2, 2020

Exciting heist film for teens and their families.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

It is in Gray's spirited execution that such by-the-book formula makes for a brisk, slick entertainment hits the summer movie spot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2010

A fun bit of action comedy with a bang up cast.

| Apr 29, 2009

The Italian Job turns out well, a fast and entertaining caper designed to give you a couple of fun hours.

| Oct 18, 2008

This one offers some agreeably mindless fun in which the villains (including Norton) are truly villainous, the payback is satisfying in a purely infantile way, and the familiarity of everything is oddly comforting.

| May 6, 2008

Gary Gray's version is tauter, better made but insufficiently idiosyncratic to attract a cult following.

| May 6, 2008

Gray adds some zip to this remake of the 1969 Michael Caine caper flick, but despite two clever action sequences and some uncharacteristically tight performances from his cast (most notably Charlize Theron and Mark Wahlberg), the con remains the same.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2007

A passable time-waster ... directed with some grace and snap.

| Original Score: C | Sep 24, 2007

Itresembles a film made up on the fly. The cast, too, are strictly cut from comic books. Don't expect any unconventional endings either.

| Feb 9, 2006

Heist movies seem pretty quaint and analog in our era where high stakes crime is primarily electronic in nature. But until someone can make embezzlement cinematically interesting, we're left with theft and this movie just gets away with it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2005

F. Gary Gray has crafted a fun summer film packed with action, comedy, and a talented ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Gray does a solid enough job behind the camera, although it's clear he feels more at home directing the action sequences than the quieter moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2005

Surprisingly gratifying ... In a summer full of computer-generated, nu-metal-accompanied kicks to the midsection, this may be the closest you'll get to drawing room grace.

| Jan 21, 2005

Cette production estivale est divertissante l'espace d'un instant si l'on ne cherche pas en trouver les moindres dfauts.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Dec 16, 2004

This is escapist fare that doesn't pretend to be Shakespeare. For what it purports to be, I found it entertaining.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 7, 2004

This unglamorous approach has the odd effect of making them seem more glamorous -- we're free to soak up their star quality because there's no hard sell to fight off.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

A light caper movie, with heavy emphasis on the word 'light' -- light plot, light action, light violence, light sex, light humor, light acting.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 2, 2004