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...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’s dating Tess, and thanks to Clooney’s restraint, he’s surprisingly credible. It may be Ocean?...
...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 others, to complete...
...When Ocean??s crew finally executes the theft, it’s as slick as any I’ve ever seen, but the elements leading up to the climax captivate well before the film’s closing 30 minutes. Even though Ocean??s Eleven beats with a heart straight from a heist flick, through its veins courses much more substantial, 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...
...Ocean??s Eleven treads a fine line between sentimentality, cheeky tribute and über-cool self-indulgence, easily Soderbergh’s least “serious” film to date. In blackjack, it is a cardinal rule to double down when holding 11 for the high stakes, winner-take-all bet. Ocean??s Eleven gambles, bets big and takes down the house...
...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...