What do you get when you cross Oceans 11 with Hackers? You get The Italian Job, an update of the 1969 film of the same name. This Job features Mark Wahlberg as Charlie, the leader of a team of specialists who plots an intricate robbery of 35 million dollars worth of gold bars from a palazzo in Venice. Using the talents of each member of the gang – inside man Steve (Edward Norton), computer hacker Lyle (Seth Green), explosives expert Left Ear (Mos Def), getaway driver Handsome Rob (Jason Statham), and veteran safecracker John (Donald Sutherland) – the job goes off without a hitch, until one of the gang betrays them. It will take all of their efforts, plus the help of Stella (Charlize Theron), a good girl who turns bad, to track down the traitor, steal back the gold, and get revenge.

The Italian Job starts off with a bang and never really slows down. The gang is small enough to get to know and care about each member, and Wahlberg and Theron have nice chemistry. There are quite a few laughs, mostly provided by the Lyle and Handsome Rob characters, and the final heist is all adrenaline. The downside of the film is that there’s not a whole lot of substance behind the adrenaline, but that may not matter. If all you’re looking for is pure, mindless entertainment, this film does the job!