typical american rubbish remake (sorry,"homage") to a classic film,considering our friends across the pond disliked the original so much they wouldnt finance part 2.
A 2003 remake of the movie, also called The Italian Job, was set in Los Angeles and stars Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker. It featured Donald Sutherland as John Bridger, played as more of a father-figure to Croker. It made many changes to the original story, replacing the British characters with a primarily American cast, moving the action from Turin to Venice and Los Angeles, adding a new villain, and replacing the ambiguous ending with one that is completely positive. The Minis of the original film were replaced by the new BMW-built MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S with the classic Mini making only a cameo appearance.
This rubbish movie isn't ended yet. Our friends across the pond, as 2491tj calls them, are going to make a second part of this abomination, called The Brazilian Job, for 2008. The only original part of this movie is the name, and now it hasn't. What's next? Arnold Schwarzenegger as Charlie Crocker? Replacing the BMW Mini by Hummers? Well, size won't be much different
I did not find that movie so much rubbish, if you do not consider as a remake of course.
About the title, here it does not refer to the main heist (which is in LA indeed). At the beginning of the movie, there is a heist in Venice, Italy, where they blown two floors to make a safe go through these:
For the main heist, at a point they have to change their plan. Then they say they'll do it like the Italian job, referring to that first heist, as they will use a similar technique:
This one is not bad at all for me, actually i find it much more entertaining than the old one, the old one has sequences and dialogues that make you fall asleep, and the most i like from the old one is the scene with the minis and the theft so, why is this one so bad?? i see it well done and with good actors, but well i guess it a question of taste once again.