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With such exquisite attention to detail, Soderbergh makes the actors’ jobs almost too easy. The mood is firmly set before his actors grace the screen, and they seem to effortlessly slide into their roles, feeding off the director’s rhythms. Clooney riffs on his rugged, cocky Out of Sight character, but reigns in his persona to match the film’s ambience, and lends a sentimentality to Ocean’s reasons for pulling the job. Danny wants to bring down Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), the owner of all three casinos, because he?...
Gone are the threadbare plot and misogynist overtones, and in their place lies a taut caper tale with Soderbergh at the top of his game. George Clooney reprises the role of Danny Ocean, a con-man just out of a New Jersey jail, who assembles a crew of 10 other men (hence Ocean’s Eleven) to steal $160 million from an impenetrably fortified vault holding cash reserves from the Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand casinos. Ocean runs the show, bringing in card-sharp Dusty (Brad Pitt), impersonator Saul (Carl Reiner) and pickpocket Linus (Matt Damon), among...
...explains precisely why he would attempt such an impossible mission. His reasons are succinct, his delivery is deadpan and his air is undeniably macho. Pitt bursts the bubble when he asks, “You’ve been rehearsing that, haven’t you?” Clooney responds: “A little, did I rush? I felt like I rushed.” With any other director, the quip might have been left on the cutting room floor, but with its inclusion, Soderbergh breaks down cliche and gives himself licence to stretch the bounds of convention...
...more nuanced filmmaking. As with Traffic—though here much more subtlety—Soderbergh contrasts textures, colors and lighting in almost every scene. Damon’s introduction is filmed grainy and under-exposed, appearing as much a pickpocketing documentary as a time for character development. When Clooney happens upon his ex-wife, Tess Ocean (Julia Roberts), the restaurant scene is softly lit from a single table lamp; palpably romantic, it plays skilfully against the oily glaze of the casino. Soderbergh is perhaps also the contemporary director most adept at using music to underscore the tenor...
Ocean’s Eleven, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts, is released by Warner Bros. Pictures and directed by Steven Soderbergh...