{"id":1017,"date":"2004-04-27T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1017.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"the-italian-job-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/04\/27\/the-italian-job-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Italian Job (2003)<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;re-imagining&#8221; (yeah, whatever) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/reviews\/quick\/archives\/001018.html\">1969 film<\/a> is the exact inverse of the original.  On the one hand, it doesn&#8217;t have the same set of timeless quotes that every movie buff will still be referencing in thirty years&#8217; time.  The set pieces are intricate and clever, but they aren&#8217;t <em>iconic<\/em>.  On the other hand, it works much better as a <em>film<\/em>.  The revenge-based plot is strong and nicely paced.  Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker isn&#8217;t a patch on Michael Caine, but the peripheral characters are all well-developed and highly entertaining, turning the gang into a true ensemble.  It&#8217;s not a classic, but I have no doubt which version I would rather watch again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;re-imagining&#8221; (yeah, whatever) of the 1969 film is the exact inverse of the original. On the one hand, it doesn&#8217;t have the same set of timeless quotes that every movie buff will still be referencing in thirty years&#8217; time. The set pieces are intricate and clever, but they aren&#8217;t iconic. On the other hand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}