Everybody's fine. And more importantly, De Niro does.

Let's call it THE I-Factor, where the "I" must stand for Italian.

Kirk Jones' 2010 remake of Italian 1990 Giuseppe Tornatore's Stanno Tutti Bene (as the original film title said), now topically called Everybody's Fine, is worth the try, no matter how low estimated remakes have been in latest cinema history.

But don't worry, because you won't be seeing any freaky Tom Cruise and dumb sight
Penelope Cruz on the screen, playing the unlucky Alejandro Amenábar's retrial of Abre los ojos, called Vanilla Sky.

Starring Robert De Niro as a widowed father-of-two grown up girls (Drew Barrymore and Kate Beckinsale) willing to catch up with them throughout his last lifetime years, Everybody's Fine won't make you regret the likes of Italian old fashioned mascalzone Marcello Mastroianni, who starred in the original movie.

Jones' no less than excellent attempt delivers an unveiled soft and smooth De Niro, shaping his wrinkles on his face not to accomplish Martin Scorsese's requests to play a worn out gangster role(The Godfather II, Goodfellas, Casino, Analyze This and Analyze That just to mention any piece of Soprano-holics syllabus) but to draw close to the late 2002's About Schmidt's Jack Nicholson image, leaving the main room to his beauty colleagues and being content with featuring the film behind the scene.

Cause De Niro, like Nicholson, is a top one. One of those who, like in all the many gangster roles he been acting in, knows exactly when to leave, doing it with style.