the italian job

Synopsis: The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly... the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) never saw coming was from a member of his own crew. After pulling off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice, Italy,... The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly... the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) never saw coming was from a member of his own crew. After pulling off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice, Italy, Charlie and his gang -- inside man Steve (Edward Norton), computer genius Lyle (Seth Green), wheelman Handsome Rob (Jason Statham), explosives expert Left-Ear (Mos Def) and veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) -- can't believe it when one of them turns out to be a double-crosser. Now the job isn't about the payoff, it's about payback!

Enter Stella (Charlize Theron), a beautiful nerves-of-steel safecracker, who joins Charlie and his former gang when they follow the backstabber to California, where they plan to re-steal the gold by tapping into Los Angeles' traffic control system, manipulating signals and creating one of the biggest traffic jams in L.A. history!

A contemporary update of Paramount's 1969 classic, "The Italian Job" features the ever-popular MINI Cooper in state-of-the-art chase scenes down Hollywood's Walk of Fame, through the Metro Rail tunnels and down narrow escape routes only the MINI can go. Full of twists, turns and exciting stunts with armored cars, motorcycles and helicopters, this action-packed thrill-ride takes audiences on wild curves they'll never see coming. -- © Paramount Pictures
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Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Mos Def, Seth Green
Director: F. Gary Gray
Screenwriter: Donna Powers, Wayne Powers
Producer: Donald De Line
Composer: John Powell


COmment :
Tricky movie, and smart. I love the small cars.. fit on any conditions.

Earth

This is a new spectacular nature movie.

It's an ambitious title, but then this is the most ambitious nature documentary ever made - in technical terms at least. Created by the BBC's Natural History Unit in parallel with the award-winning TV series 'Planet Earth', its production statistics are staggering. It took five years to make, with 40 specialist camera crews spending 4,500 days in the field (including 250 days of aerial photography), filming in 200 locations across 26 countries.
Fans of 'Planet Earth' will have already seen much of the film's footage on telly, which is exactly why they'll be queuing up to see it in cinemas. This really is a case of bigger is better. While little of the photography's clarity has been lost in the transfer from small screen to large, there's a dramatic increase in the emotional clout of the pictures - be it from the alien beauty of the Aurora Australis, the comic dandy strut of a Papuan bird of paradise or the unimaginable ferocity of a great white shark attack in super slow-mo. In fact, thanks to the new-fangled HD and Cineflex camera technology available to the crews, it's a safe bet that much of the natural wonders on display in Earth have never been shown off to such good effect on screen, if at all. The epic sequence in which a migrating flock of demoiselle cranes flies over Mount Everest, for instance, is the first of its kind. It was filmed through an open door of a Nepalese bomber at an altitude of 28,000 feet.

Comment: a very good movie on taking the shoot, and the fast forward of the nature changing. I cried when i watched it, the poor polar bear touched me. And the birds are beautifully funny.