I don’t really agree…The remake is, as someone below has already stated, a harmless bit of popcorn fluff. There’s nothing that really stands out as particularly original, and all that people in 40 years’ time will remember is that there were some good action sequences. It does, however, beg the question, why call it The Italian Job at all?..They reworked the plot so comprehensively, that surely somebody in Hollywood should‘ve come up with a different gimmick…Take away the new Coopers (in themselves a travesty; they shouldn’t have been allowed to call them ‘Minis’, because they’re not, they’re Maxis, and John Cooper must have turned in his grave, this was not what he and Issigonis had in mind when they designed the original Cooper S), and the fancy driving, and what have you got? Just another caper movie…It’s symptomatic of the times that Hollywood cannot come up with anything original, and so traded on the original film’s appeal, but if you ignore the title, and treat the film simply on its own merits…It’s not so bad…It’ll never be continuously repeated on wet Sunday afternoons, nor keep the whole family amused, but it’s bubblegum for the brain, just the same.
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