{"id":1018,"date":"2004-04-27T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1018.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"the-italian-job-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/04\/27\/the-italian-job-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Italian Job (1969)<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A truly outstanding collection of classic set-pieces, stylish scenes, and memorable quotes, but the film as a whole is rubbish.  The story is poor, the pacing is all over the place, and the acting is literally farcical.  Michael Caine delivers a workmanlike cheeky chappie performance, but the rest of the cast cringe, whimper, fawn, whine, pomp and strut like they&#8217;re over-emoting on stage for an audience that doesn&#8217;t have close-ups.  It&#8217;s easy to see why the film is considered a classic, but it&#8217;s equally easy to see why it&#8217;s more talked about than actually <em>watched<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truly outstanding collection of classic set-pieces, stylish scenes, and memorable quotes, but the film as a whole is rubbish. The story is poor, the pacing is all over the place, and the acting is literally farcical. Michael Caine delivers a workmanlike cheeky chappie performance, but the rest of the cast cringe, whimper, fawn, whine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_2_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","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=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}