Rating: 
Summary: Fun, Cool, A-List Stars
Review: OCEAN'S ELEVEN is one of the five best films of 2001. I mostly wanted to see it because some of my favorite actors- Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon- star. I was disappointed that Julia Roberts didn't even show up until 45 minutes into the movie, and didn't even speak until several scenes later. She has a pretty small part, but when she is on screen, she steals the spotlight.Here's the basic plot of the movie. Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is a thief just getting out of jail. He meets up with Rusty (Brad Pitt) and comes up with a scheme to rob the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. The vault in this casino contains more than $150 million (including money from the MGM Grand and Mirage casinos). The catch is that Danny's ex-wife Tess (Julia Roberts) is dating the owner of all three casinos, Terry (Andy Garcia). So Danny hopes to win her back while robbing her boyfriend. To help him pull off the elaborate heist, he seeks the help of eleven men, all with different expertises. Two are great with explosives or electronics, another is a pickpocket,two are drivers, one is a casino security expert, another is a former casino dealer, another is a acrobat, and two others are professional theives. The men are introduced, and after training the men (some of which have no skill in stealing whatsoever) the robbery comes into action. The plan to rob the casino is so detailed it's a little difficult to keep up with. There are a few surprises, including the fact that they actually call Terry and tell him they are robbing him (don't worry, that doesn't give away anything). I'll let you see the rest when you go see this great movie. Most kids could probably see this. The reason this film was rated PG-13 was mostly language (a certain four-letter word is heard once or twice, and the finger was shown) but also for a little sexual content. Most kids over 11 are probably mature enough to see this. I don't quite know what category this movie fits into. Drama, I guess, although there is some comedy and romance, and certainly action. I would recomend it to anyone. I have yet to meet someone who didn't like this. It's great entertainment that Hollywood could use more. THE BEST THING: The twists in the plot that
even fool the audience. THE WORST THING: Julia Roberts is not on
screen nearly enough, but she does do a good job with the acting, as usual. I hope you see this movie, and I also hope this movie gets nominated for the Oscars' Picture of the Year. It certainly deserves it.
Rating:
Summary: 11 great actors!
Review: This movie is casted perfectly with a great story! It's about Daniel Ocean (Clooney) who gets out of jail and hires a crew to help him rob 3 casinos. Great movie that kept me entertained the whole time. Must see!
Rating:
Summary: 11 out of 10!
Review: Ocean's 11 just happens to be the best crime film in a long time. Not since films such as "The Sting" has a movie emulating common criminals come off as such a huge success story! Starring an unbelievably talented cast (George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts are the big names) and directed by the sublime Steven Soderberg, Ocean's 11 is the third "classic" of the 21st century (the others being Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone). The film opens with Danny Ocean (Clooney) being released from jail for a crime we are given little information on. While behind bars, his wife, Tess (Roberts) has divorced him and hooked up with the villain of the story, Terry, who happens to own three Las Vegas casinos. So Danny sets about using his newly found freedom to rob Terry of both his money and his woman. To do this, he enlists the help of 11 eccentric master criminals, including a pickpocket (Damon), an electronics boff, an East Asian circus gymnast, an aging con artist with ulcers and a host of others. The plan is to rob the central vault of the three casinos, which, in the words of Ocean, "is better protected than a nuclear missile silo." It contains over 160 million US dollars. So do they get away with it? Far be it from me to spoil the ending of a film as good as this one. I'm afraid you'll have to watch it yourself...you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: Ocean's 11 "Steven Soderbergh is Brilliant!"
Review: This is a must see comedy/action. "Even better than the first" George Clooney stars as Danny Ocean, a prison hopper, eager to win his ex-wife back. Julia Roberts deliciously plays his ex-wife Tess. Danny's 1st helper, Dusty, (Brad Pitt, He and Julia have a great chemistry together as not displayed in the Mexican in which they acted together.) Danny plans to rob Tess's new boyfriend's casino with the help of his ELEVEN assistants. To prove to Tess He is her man. The Movie has a great way of robbing the money. Strategy. Plan. Theory. That will make your day. Hey if you don't like the movie, there is still 4 (I guess OK) guys in the movie. And of course, Julia Roberts. She's Terrific!
Rating: 
Summary: Like 'Mission Impossible' directed by Martin Scorcese.
Review: There is an amazing shot in 'Ocean's Eleven' to be found, appropriately, in one of the many throwaway digressions that punctuate this most musical of films. Elliott Gould is telling his reckless young proteges George Clooney and Brad Pitt, who have come to him with a proposal to rob three casinos, about three equally reckless young men who came the closest to such a coup. Two were stopped before they even left the building, but a third made it, only to be shot in the back by secruity. As the camera races back to get a full view of this failure, the fan-like rise of the casino's front matching the banknotes fluttering from the dying man's hands. As they inevitably rain on his prone figure, so a fountain to our right mimics his downfall. It's a small moment, over in seconds; it doesn't even have anything to do with the lead players, except as an awful warning. But is encapsulates what is so treasurable in Steven Soderbergh's cinema, and 'Eleven' in particular. It inextricably links its characters' fate and struggle and endeavour to a precise place, the casinoscape of Las Vegas, a faceless monolith mocking all who presume to defeat it. Soderbergh's vibrant, colourful, authentic filming of this milieu, with its vaults, corridors, secret passages, traps and panopticon transforms it from a gaudy joke, into a Beckett-like landscape of the soul (Las Vegas is, after all, surrounded by desert), where someone you can't see is always watching. Yes, in effect, 'Eleven' is updated John Huston. But Huston went into his films already convinced of his philosophy - that human endeavour is doomed to failure - with an often deadening effect on his films. Soderbergh is more open, more ambiguous, less convined of the rigidity of Fate. He knows the dangers, but he knows the graces too. He is more interested in certain characters than others - Clooney, Matt Damon and Carl Reiner especially - but all are ennobled by the job, by the communal bonhomie. For most of its running time, 'Eleven' just about misses out on classic status - the fleetfooted direction, giving every sequence a fresh tweak, novelty and resonance that keeps us expectant and fuelled; the engaging guy-play of the actors; the foot-flicking momentum of the jazzy soundtrack; can't quite hide the fact that the script is a bit flat, only funny because Clooney, Pitt, Gould and co. are great kidders, not because of its inherent qualities. The Julia Roberts subplot seems initially like a bit of a sell-out that slows things down. But, in the last 20 minutes - and I won't tell you how it happens, but you'll see what I mean - the pitch is raised, loose-ends don't so much come together as fruitfully coalesce; emotion seeps in with all the quiet, epiphanic rush of a Debussy moonlight. The heist film escapes its mechanical grid and becomes something else, something provisional, doubtful, vulnerable, but quite beautiful - you realise that if you saw the film again, it would reveal so much more.
Rating:
Summary: Enthralling - Made you think!!!
Review: Wonderful, wonderful show! I found it to be suspensful and a real "thinking" movie. There's not many of these made anymore. Everything that we were thinking was wrong, which made us go back and re-evaluate our thinking, only to be half-right or wrong again! It was wonderful! Having this particular cast of actors for this movie was a great mix - they really worked well together and seemed to have fun doing it. Really an enthralling movie, one that I wouldn't mind watching again and again. You pick up on something new EVERY TIME!!! Wonderful!!!
Rating:
Summary: Ocean's 11
Review: First of all three words: Yum, yum, yum. That said, it also has a really good plot and is a really fun movie (even guys like it) but....does it really matter???? Yum.
Rating:
Summary: Refreshing!
Review: The older version of this movie was hands down a loser! I prefer the Soderbergh version any day! Whacky, Cool, Easy Going and above all fun to watch. I went for this one last night with one of my buddies and enjoyed it to the core. George Clooney was too good with his stylish accent just like Pitt. Even though Julia Roberts had not much of a role, she still rules the screen everytime she is on. Andy Garcia as the Head of the Casinos is brilliant. Suave, In control and dirty!! Matt Damon as the two-pie pickpocket excels in his bit performance. What I liked about this movie was how Soderbergh could assemble such a giant cast and remove the best from each of them! The script is very well written and crisp. Performances are excellent and do not weigh you down. Overall a great flick worth viewing on a boring Sunday!!
Rating:
Summary: Awesome Extreme
Review: This movie deserves an applause. It had a good plot, and awesome acting. I enjoy movies based on the actors, and in this movie, the acting gets 5 stars in my opinion. George Clooney makes an excellent risk taker. Danny Ocean is determined to rob the most complicated casinos in the world in order to win back his true love, Tess (Julia Roberts). Honestly, I'm not too fond of Julia Roberts, but this certainly did not effect my mood of the movie. Having all these hot guys in action is the greatest thing to see anyway. The movie wasn't all about greed. It was about the meaning of really taking risk for people you care about. Risk is sexy, and flattering. For someone to give up everything he has just to make me notice him is the sweetest thing a guy could do to win me over.
If you don't enjoy watching risk, love, and action, this is definately not a movie for you. Don't even bother to watch a movie you can't handle.
Rating:
Summary: A Great Movie!!!
Review: I never thought that I would get into a movie like this taking I am 15. It is a great movie with a star power. The cast is wonderful. This movie carrys along great and keeps you guessing about whats really going on. I feel that everyone of all ages would enjoy this movie. This is a most see!!
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