The Italian Job (2003)

Betrayal can turn the perfect crime into a personal mission, and payback can be sweeter than any fortune. F. Gary Gray's "The Italian Job," a loose remake of the 1969 caper classic, stars Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker, a smooth master thief whose crew pulls off a spectacular heist in Venice, blasting through a palazzo floor so a safe full of gold bars drops into the canal below, then escaping in a thrilling speedboat chase. But in the Italian Alps, they're double-crossed by one of their own, Steve (Edward Norton), who leaves them for dead and kills their beloved mentor, John Bridger (Donald Sutherland). A year later, Charlie tracks Steve to Los Angeles and enlists Bridger's daughter, Stella (Charlize Theron), a brilliant safecracker who now tests security systems for law enforcement, to help them steal the gold back. Charlie's crew includes tech whiz Lyle (Seth Green), who insists he invented Napster, getaway driver Handsome Rob (Jason Statham), explosives expert Left Ear (Mos Def) and mechanic Wrench (Franky G). Posing as a cable repair technician, Stella scopes out Steve's mansion, and the crew plans to hack into the city's traffic control system to create a massive gridlock when Steve moves the gold. The scheme leads to a thrilling chase through the city's streets, down stairways and into the subway tunnels in a fleet of zippy Mini Coopers, with a helicopter in hot pursuit.