how this film could miss so many of the fascinating and complex and mysterious aspect of the original story or the original movie be truly remarkable . an unbelievably thin and unengaging plot and ankle deep characterisation or motivation and a really awful soundtrack ( replace tension with vast swathe of noise and replace the arcane musical reference of the original for digitised crash and roar . then there be the specific reference to the original which be merely plaster on over the crack . dreadful . in a world where gormless and brain dead amerikan remake of the italian job ( a tear appear ) and get carter ( sob uncontrollably ) and alfie have desecrate our screen recently and this one take the proverbial biscuit . execrable nonsense . how ellen burstyn ever get involve be a wonder . rubbish .