Movie Review: Ocean’s Thirteen
How refreshing – a sequel that actually stands up to the original. In the season of the sequel (see footnote below), Ocean’s does its due diligence and lives up to the hype. This is the heist movie everyone wanted to see in Ocean’s Twelve, but felt completely let down and dismayed. George Clooney and team are back for round 3 and this time it’s personal.
When Reuben (Elliott Gould) is double-crossed by his new business partner Willie Bank (exquisitely played by Al Pacino), he ends up suffering from a medical nightmare that sucks the life out of him. Enter Danny Ocean and his merry band of thieves* who come to the rescue with an elaborate plan that just might work. All of our old favorites are back, with the delightful addition of Eddie Izzard as the smarmy yet intriguing Roman Nagel.
How do you hit the infamous Willy Bank where it hurts? You turn his fancy new hotel into a complete disaster. This is a huge undertaking and it will take everything they have got up their collective sleeves to make it work – they even have to solicit some help from their old nemesis, Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). This movie is about the ultimate heist – how can you lose your shirt in a casino when the house always wins? Leave it to Danny Ocean to execute the perfect revenge in the span of 3 ½ minutes.
This movie is smart, flashy, funny and completely entertaining. It has brought back the glamour and success from Ocean’s Eleven and done it up right. There are some nods to both previous films (most of which a newcomer may miss, but it won’t effect their enjoyment of the movie), including some familiar faces. George and Steven Soderbergh learned their lesson from Twelve and this time around made the movie they should have made before. Honestly, as a woman, I’m perfectly happy watching 2 hours of some of the hottest men in Hollywood – but this movie delivered in many ways that would even make the guys happy.
With some twists, turns (and shakes), a prosthetic nose and a really bad boob job, Thirteen leaves the audience ready for Ocean’s Fourteen! And boy, did they ever leave the door open for that.
The Season of the Sequel:
May: Shrek the Third, Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, 28 Weeks Later
June: Ocean’s Thirteen, Hostel: Part II, Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Evan Almighty, Live Free or Die Hard
July: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
August: The Bourne Ultimatum, Rush Hour 3, Halloween (the 9th one)
September: Resident Evil: Extinction
October: Saw IV
November: The Punisher 2
December: National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Alien vs. Predator: AVP2
*The rest of the team:
Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt)
Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon)
Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison)
Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle)
Yen (Shaobo Qin)
Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck)
Turk Malloy (Scott Caan)
Frank Catton (Bernie Mac)
Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner)
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Release date: By 16 May, 2006
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