i must admit and i be against this movie from the outset but i try my hard to be impartial and i really do and but the very idea of remake a sophisticated and witty and entertaining and quirky british classic full of character have to be dubious from the outset . people in my house be watch this so i swallow my pride and tell myself to be professional about film ( i have study them at uni after all ) . a expect for an american film of this sort and the movie begin with a chase which wasn not bad . indeed and many of the action sequence be credible and this alone lift the mark . yet the characterisation be abysmal and the set piece could very easily have be splice from any american schlock blockbuster you might have have the misfortune to watch and it lack all character . seem to take a skewed angle on the original film with a failed initial robbery and the u version do the predictable thing and introduces an emotional factor with the death of donald sutherland character . this allow our u cousins plenty of opportunity for sycophantic and dewy eye vengeance seek against the evil doer which it milk to predictable excess . this be never more so evident a in the scene feature charlize theron ( oh pretty . oh so pretty . look at her pretty and wound bambi eye and everyone . ) which be thoroughly nauseate . her entrance scene and particularly and be like something out of resident evil or tomb raider which be both a ) more entertaining and b ) have good beginning because they couldn not mess up a game like they could with british cinema which be already chock full of spark and people you genuinely feel something for and moment of inspiration . but i digress and the whole inclusion of a pretty girl for the sake of it just seem like the most ham fisted manoeuvre i have see in some time and expose cynical hollywood blockbuster lust for what it be . if you like any of these actor and by the way and and you agree with any of the above comment and do not go to see this film . if i have the opportunity of watch fight club or american history x after see ed norton in this and i would have decline . likewise jason statham with lock stock ( and i suppose the transporter be okay if you like that sort of thing ) . sadly and all the set piece be design in the most transparent possible way to get you think and wow . he smart . and coo . he cool . and hey . what a tough guy . then there the funny pc guy who have comic relief splatter across his forehead but whose humour content can be anticipate two minute in advance . to be honest and if you have see one or two film like it and you might easily confuse the two a clone from the jerry bruckheimer stable . not that jerry be irredeemably awful and by the way and but he just use the clichés to excess a everyone know ( or should ) . this be 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 end in the michael caine version make it but and i be sorry and it just one of those extremely rare film that and if i would see it at a cinema and i would have walk out and stag a small protest outside . it not just that it be another identical by the number ocean 14 or something ( ocean eleven be fine but do not bother with the rest . ) with all the glitz and glamour and fake sas and pantomime heroic of such a film but i couldn not recognise anything from the original at all . so and if you be expect the italian job and not ocean 14 albeit badly write with a less establish cast and character and some disingenuous element and cardboard cut out script write then do not watch . i do not mind people like a bit of mindless fun but this be a criminal hatchet job that do not deserve in any way to parade itself under the title of a classic . seriously and show some pride . i felt thoroughly justify in my outraged and sickened reaction when i first hear that the film would be make . avoid at all cost . p. s. some of the action sequence aren not bad at all so add an extra 1 to the mark if you like this sort of thing .