Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Ted Griffin, Harry Brown, Charles Lederer
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia
If you take nothing else away from this movie, just remember
that the greatest heist of all time requires the suavest and suave men in the
world. So basically, George Clooney.
First things first, this movie is really interesting to watch. You would expect that the most enjoyable bit is the heist itself but I found it really fun just to watch the plan come together and for all the characters to play their own special roles in the heist. Most of these characters are also really memorable. I found myself enjoying every part of the movie that had a character in it (especially if they were played by George Clooney, Brad Pitt of Matt Damon).
Unfortunately, for a viewer to truly understand a plan that goes into a heist as complex as this, it must be explained to them rather clearly, the movie forgets to do this. The line between setup for the heist and the heist itself was exceedingly blurred and I often had very little idea what was going to happen next (which was both good and bad). I thought it would have been cool for the characters to be such criminal masterminds that they can say they are going to do something and just do it without fail and still be suave as hell. This kind of did happen but Clooney never seemed like ‘oh no they are going to have me under surveillance at all times’. On top of this, the supposedly unexpected mini-twist at the end was rather predictable. All of these things are rather minor though.
Ocean’s Eleven makes robbing a casino look remarkably easy but doesn’t really explain to the viewer how they actually did it. The ending was rather underwhelming and predictable but despite these minor inconveniences that characters make this movie so endlessly enjoyable to watch and certainly compelled me to watch Ocean’s Twelve. Definitely worth your time and your money if you can accept the fact that at some points you won’t have a clue what the characters are doing.
First things first, this movie is really interesting to watch. You would expect that the most enjoyable bit is the heist itself but I found it really fun just to watch the plan come together and for all the characters to play their own special roles in the heist. Most of these characters are also really memorable. I found myself enjoying every part of the movie that had a character in it (especially if they were played by George Clooney, Brad Pitt of Matt Damon).
Unfortunately, for a viewer to truly understand a plan that goes into a heist as complex as this, it must be explained to them rather clearly, the movie forgets to do this. The line between setup for the heist and the heist itself was exceedingly blurred and I often had very little idea what was going to happen next (which was both good and bad). I thought it would have been cool for the characters to be such criminal masterminds that they can say they are going to do something and just do it without fail and still be suave as hell. This kind of did happen but Clooney never seemed like ‘oh no they are going to have me under surveillance at all times’. On top of this, the supposedly unexpected mini-twist at the end was rather predictable. All of these things are rather minor though.
Ocean’s Eleven makes robbing a casino look remarkably easy but doesn’t really explain to the viewer how they actually did it. The ending was rather underwhelming and predictable but despite these minor inconveniences that characters make this movie so endlessly enjoyable to watch and certainly compelled me to watch Ocean’s Twelve. Definitely worth your time and your money if you can accept the fact that at some points you won’t have a clue what the characters are doing.
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