Journal lucasw's Journal: The Italian Job 2
(vague spoilers)
The thieves are all very nice and lack any hard edges, despite being hardened criminals. The whole movie lacks any edge as well, there's nothing particularly exciting or clever.
The Napster joke was old years before the movie came out, but then it comes up again and again and then I was laughing at the stupidity of Seth Green's character continually harping on it. I'd imagine five years from now younger kids might see this movie and say "What's Napster?" The joke with the Jason Statham talking to the cable girl was the only genuine moment the movie had. Of course the stereo thing was done to death by the previews.
Green being able to measure the heights of the trucks backends is redundant- he didn't need to know the heights, just that one was lower than the others.
Being able to take video and turn it into a complete 3D schematic was ridiculous- they should have at least shown the video being processed and large gaps appearing in the model where Theron didn't tape. The cheesy sequence of the car driving through the house made it even worse.
I recall Swordfish had the tech-babble punched up with a lot of references to Slashdot material- here it's all gibberish.
The movie is extremely straightforward- no 18 doublecrosses revealed in the last five minutes like Reindeer Games, thankfully...
I'm sure a lot of other reviews go on about ridiculous amount of screen time the mini coopers get- my thoughts:
Wouldn't having the trunks full of gold drop the backend down when they fly out of the tunnel? The unspecified 'souping up' done to them accounts for them being able do any speedy driving at all, perhaps they put counter weights in.
They never once get dirty or lose their sheen... that goes for all the actors as well.
Mildly amusing, and extremely forgettable.
yeah... (Score:2)
it was entertaining...but like most movies...you could pick out many flaws, such as the mini's. I guess it's technically possible to make a mini strong enough to fall from around 6 feet, loaded with thousands of pounds of gold...but I think the reinforcments in the frame, and the axles required to do that would be HUGE!
It was worth paying the $4.00 to see it
Re:yeah... (Score:2)
It doesn't matter whether it would be really possible or not, but the movie has to recognize the that situation is a little extreme: there should have been noticeable differences between the handling of the cars with and without gold, not to completely undermine the performance of the cars, but to constantly present cues that a whole lot of heavy gold is being stolen and th