
Good, But Four Stars Only
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Plot:
After their old chum Reuben Tischkoff (Gould) is double-crossed in a business deal and hospitalised, Danny Ocean (Clooney) reconvenes his charming gang of thieves and heads to Las Vegas to gain revenge on the man who put Ruben at death's door: shark-like hotelier, Willy Bank (Pacino). Their plan is simple: break the Bank by destroying his new multi-billion dollar hotel. However, it won't be that easy...
My Review:
It's good to note that sequels are not always as good as its predecessors, its could be down to the fact that the experience involves watching so many A-list stars having a whale of a time, whilst you sit at home bored senseless. This time the last inclusive heist finishes the trilogy with a smooth and slick close. Ocean's Eleven was a grand affair, new styles and overflowing with cool that really brought back the classic hustling movies with a touch more modern crust.
Ocean's Twelve felt like...well...futile! Incomplete and a fairly uninteresting stop-gap to make way for this finale that has more prominence. This time, Thirteen occasionally feels like a two-hour make-up for the all the French canoodling of Twelve, with less smug and more focus onto the gang themselves (no love interests here; Catherine Zeta-Jones and Julia Roberts despondently unavailable.) Newcomer Eddie Izzard takes the flight of fancy as electronics genius Roman Nagel, with the heist already meticulously and ingenuously underway, receives a very detailed briefing from Danny (George Clooney) and Rusty (Brad Pitt), who have become seriously stuck in their efforts to break 'The Bank', Willy Banks' (Al Pacino) hotel-casino. It's wreathed in flashbacks enclosed in more flashbacks, the camera-work is a bit shadowy and occasionally shot in dim-lit rooms. The plot becomes Byzantine and hard to follow as the first hour is the set-up for the bright and breezy ending.
This time, dir. Soderbergh ensures that the second half of the movie is bright, slick, ravishing and opulently entertaining. Jazzed up camera-work gets underway, performances get spruced up and the movie climaxes towards its conclusion as the complicated plots and subplots all coalesce to work well as clockwork, with twists upon twists, punch line following punch line and big pay-off pursuing even bigger pay-off. The third outing gives us all the belated lightness of touch to a sighed and blessed relief that works well. The result is the first genuinely enjoyable movie, Ocean's Thirteen is about gloss and glitz.
Verdict:
Sharp and witty. Funny and slick; more entertaining than it's predecessor. 7.5/10.
Review ID: 10000000004815939

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