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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I bought this along with the original. What a combo!
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Summary: You can watch it over and over again...
Review: ...this is a DVD for your collection. You can just watch it again and again and it is like watching it for the first time. All-Star cast with a far-fetched storyline, but it just sucks you right into the plot and you get wrapped up in the action.
I would recommend watching the original with Sinatra/Sammy Davis - RatPack first, and then watch this version. The ending throws you for a major league curve ball in the original version. This version takes you on a roller-coaster ride right down to the ending. 5 Stars. Good Luck in Vegas! - Chad Castorina
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Summary: Send the EPA to investigate this Ocean - it stinks!
Review: What a waste! Good actors reciting brain-numbing lines; acting that was flat, uninvolved, and uninspiring. So many good actors given such dreadful lines. Was this movie filmed in parts, based on the actors' availability and schedules? I got the impression that the actors in this movie were not connected to one another when this movie was made. I rented this and the most fun I had was sending it back down the return chute at the video rental store. Ocean's Eleven is a zero.
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Summary: what a surprise... a remake better than the original
Review: This is the movie the Rat Pack SHOULD have made. The original had everything going for it-- Sinatra, Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., the sixties, a swingin' soundtrack --but somehow fell flat. For a crime flick that should have been fun, it left you slightly down at the end and the entire tone was heavy and serious as the morgue the last scene is filmed in.But the new version with Clooney, Pitt, Damon and Roberts? Now HERE is a movie worth watching. The plot has been tightly updated and the whole film has been shot in a slick, nostalgic, hip style that is a little bit retro and a little bit whimsical. The whole feel is successful and the movie unabashedly delivers simply a good time. The twists are fun, but not mind-bending (the narration of how the heist will be pulled and the repeated rehearsals leave the audience with a fairly clear idea of how to pull off their very own perfect crime) and the characters are quirky and fun to watch. It was an excellent update to classify all the eleven con artists into types: "the idea man", "the grease man", "the high roller", etc, as it helps you distinguish them all (a fairly impossible feat in the clumsily-edited Rat Pack version) and gives the movie a smirky touch. This isn't a movie about a heist, this is a movie about a fish-tale of a heist. This is fantasy, but it is so nicely achieved that you feel great about having seen it. Frankly, I liked Brad Pitt and George Clooney better in their roles than Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. They seemed to have a better on-screen friendship. I rooted for this group more than I did the Rat Pack-- I WANTED them to get away with it! Also, Andy Garcia delivers such a deliciously cold, shark-like performance that you can hardly wait to see him get ripped off big time. This is a movie purely for entertainment and it delivers just that-- entertainment dressed up in a well-tailored suit and sipping a martini.
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Summary: I DUNNO
Review: What a tasty prospect for a film: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts and for the young at heart amongst us, Joshua Jackson of 'Dawson's Creek' fame in a cameo role -all directed by the Oscar winning Steven Soderbergh! George Clooney plays Danny Ocean who soon after being released from prison, puts together a team of eleven to undertake a robbery of the three biggest casinos in Las Vegas in an attempt to bring in a reward of $150 million. What soon becomes clear is that it's not the money which will give Danny the ultimate satisfaction, but the opportunity to get revenge on the owner of the three casinos he is robbing -Benedict (Andy Garcia) who just happens to be the new beau of Danny's ex, Tess (Julia Roberts). Some of the gang of eleven are more memorable than others -especially the Chinese acrobat, the explosives expert with a dodgy cockney accent and the medallion wearing Reuben -aka Monica Gellar's dad! The cast are brilliant at acting cool -even if all Brad Pitt is doing is snacking on the screen (he does this a lot!), you are still transfixed by him because he looks so good on screen. What makes the story so intriguing is the fact that Danny's mission seems so impossible: security in the casinos is paramount and the route to the reward is littered with obstacles. The number of close calls that the gang is faced with is great fun and one can't help but root for these crooks throughout the film. It is also refreshing to watch a film which is dominated by male stars and is not filled with macho swearing. Instead, we have a banter between the stars which is indicative of their camaraderie. 'Ocean's Eleven' is a welcome option in the choice of movies available at the moment which is dominated by Oscar nominees that are not going to be everyone's cup of tea. With this film, it's simply a case of sit back and enjoy the fun!
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Summary: sinks to the bottom of the ocean
Review: What a steaming pile of horse manure. This film should never have been made the first time, let alone twice. The original was just a vehicle for the rat pack anyway. Why did this film get made? Better still, how did it get made? Well, if the big names commit to it, some schmucks will pour money into anything. Was is supposed to be a comedy/something or other, 'cause it was about as funny as peeling back your own finger nails. And how did they manage to make julia look so old? Save your time and save your dollars.
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Summary: Always smiling, not laughing out loud
Review: This is just a cleverly written, superbly acted, story that you will enjoy every minute of. I have actually bought this movie twice after losing it in a move (my friend "lost it" while he was "helping" me move). Oh well, enjoy a great flick.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I loved this movie! Besides the obvious reasons - the big name stars, the heist storyline... this movie had the balls to have a heist movie without everyone backstabbing each other. It seems like every single heist movie you watch these days has people working together, then one guy turns out to be a bad guy... that doesn't happen here. It's purely about how they pull off the greatest robbery of their lives and it's fantastic. Besides the heist storyline, there is also the love story between Tess (Julia Roberts) and Danny Ocean (George Clooney). I wish Julia had had a bigger part, it seemed like she was mostly eye candy. I think she had only a few lines the entire time. Overall it was great. It's not deep, it's just pure fun. I give it five stars. :)
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Summary: Like a great wine, it just gets better with time.
Review: I have to say this is a pretty deceptive movie. The first time you watch it, it doesn't seem to make too much of an impression. It wasn't until it went into heavy rotation on cable that I watched it again and I have to say I can't seem to stop watching it everytime it's on. I think I'm on my 60th viewing and I own the DVD! There's a certain rhythm to the movie and it never misses a beat from start to end. The dialogue is amazingly clever and everytime you watch you find something new. I hear people complain about the lack of character development. I don't believe that was the point and you can be pretty sure that's not what Soderbergh meant for it to be. Funny, clever and incredibly stylish. Just a great flick all round with nice little touches. The DVD is equally great with behind the scenes looks at casting and how the dialogue pretty much emerged from the actors themselves. I highly recommend this.
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Summary: Should appeal to an ocean of 11-year-olds
Review: Yes, the stars are high-powered. Yes, the pacing is rapid-fire. Yes, the cinematography is excellent. But the script is painfully sophomoric. The romantic triangle is played out at an emotional and intellectual level you might expect from 12-year-olds going steady and breaking up during summer school. The jokes are cliches -- delivered with panache by stars milking them for all they're worth, but still they're jokes you've heard before and can expect to hear again in many a B movie after this one. The "caper" we all paid to watch is handled just as slickly -- meaning, holes in the plot are zoomed past with a throwaway line to disguise the shortcoming -- but frankly you could cover most of the same ground by watching a couple of old Columbo TV shows. At least it's a moving target. Events follow quickly upon one another, and before you're done marvelling about one tired old idea they've trotted out before your eyes, they've got the next tired old idea up for you to look at. For a long time I kept hoping it would get better. It didn't, but I did keep the DVD playing until it was over, so I'll give it 2 stars instead of 1.
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