Movie Sign

[grysar]

I'm seeing Italian Job at Loews Centerpark 7:30 pm Monday. If anyone other than the posters on my original LJ entry about this wanna come, feel free to show up. :P

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I saw it on Thursday. I do not recommend it. It's not terrible, but it's not really very good either.

I'd post a longer review, but since you are probably going to see it tonight, I won't spoil anything. If you're interested in my gripes, ask me tomorrow and I'll post 'em.

Nicolas

[grysar.livejournal.com]

Why wait. I'll ask now, go ahead and post them when you get the chance, I just won't read them before I go to see it.

Fortunately, the genre is such a favorite of mine that even a mediocre film will please me. However, I'm more than happy to hear critiques of its merit.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have time to go into detail, but I found the movie failed to really convey the effort and skill involved in the heist. The computer hacking seemed effortless (and worse, riskless), but I could have lived with that. But I feel the film was hurt by the fact that a key dramatic moment, the safecracking, was very unclear. The heroine acts anxious, but how and what she was doing I did not know, so I couldn't really care. She panics for a minute, does something or other to figure out the combination, it works, and the film moves on.

And man, was it just me, or does the fact that the hero and heroine get together at the end come out of nowhere? Was there even a single line of dialogue hinting at romance?

Nicolas

Fair warning, spoilers used freely

[grysar.livejournal.com]

I'd tend to agree on the safe cracking. I had no objection to the guy doing it by ear and feel at the start, but the heroine doing it seemed rather silly to me. The movie was very explicit that she always used equipment to crack safes; so I don't know how she did it exactly nor do I find it particularly credible that she could do it.

As for the romance, I assumed that there would be a hookup as that's how these things tend to work in movies. But yeah, it wasn't really setup nor was it meaningful in any way to me.

My other critique would be that aside from the hacker, none of the supporting characters really came alive to me. They all had their assigned key characteristics and abilities as well as one or two amusing quircks. However, the ensemble in Ocean's 11 for example was twice as big but felt more alive and interesting.

This isn't to say I didn't like the movie, just that I don't intend to buy it.