The Italian Job (1969)

The Italian Job

I've got very few problems understanding why they chose to remake this, as both the premise and the heist idea show promise. Obviously the execution wasn't nearly as good, and as such it was a logic movie to redo properly like they did in the 2003 The Italian Job, which I found rather entertaining for the genre.

Adding comedic relief to any heist, action or crime movie in general is a balancing act as well as getting the fun to work on its own. In this I found they managed neither. Some of the plays on British in general works quite well, but most of the rest just helped dragging its entertainment value downward.

What's worse is the heist itself. The preparations even managed to do stuff not needed for the job, even adding a point of ruining several cars while at it. To make matters worse there was very little flow throughout the execution part, and then this quickly became nothing but a good idea badly executed.