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4.0 out of 5 stars
Missed the mark but not by a long shot,
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This review is from: Ocean's Thirteen / Danny Ocean 13 (Widescreen) (DVD)
Oceans Thirteen makes up for floppy Twelve but was too simple of a movie to have matched the, in my opinion, success of Eleven.Oceans Eleven had a simple story (stealing money from a Las Vegas casino) but the execution was perfectly complicated with a few clever twists and surprises with good strong acting from the whole crew. Oceans Twelve was a complicated story (Benedict goes after the gang for his stolen money and wants 2x but only after being told by a guy who wants to challenge the Oceans gang to a thieving contest to prove who is the better thief and everyone has to evacuate to Europe to avoid Benedict...on so on and so forth plus a romance back story) but with an even more complicated execution that needs at least 2 watch overs to get the whole picture. Twelve was too much twisting and too much surprising and too many story lines all tangled up in a heaping mess that you don't know what the movie is about anymore. Oceans Thirteen goes back to the simple story of the gang's revenge for Reuben's near fatal heart attack. But by now, we all know the twists and surprises and even for those who don't, its almost all explained when Nagal was brought in so there was very few surprises to pull without the movie becoming too ridiculous. What they did do right though was the story, it was simple enough that you got it all on 1 sitting so no having to buy the DVD and rewatch the whole thing 5x over to get the whole picture. Lost out on characters, the movie almost always zeros in on just Danny, Rusty, and Linus but Thirteen was more so the character balance was off. Plus the 2 brothers didn't do much bantering like they use to and I kinda miss that.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better than the second, at least as good as the first,
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This review is from: Ocean's Thirteen / Danny Ocean 13 (Widescreen) (DVD)
I can't believe I waited to watch this film and ended up borrowing it from a friend. It's definitely worth renting and certainly worth buying if you're a big fan of any of the leading actors. Ocean's Thirteen is far superior to the second instalment in the franchise and perhaps even better than Ocean's Eleven. The movie stays true to the series and characters with plenty of witty humour, an elaborate heist that includes multiple elaborate steps to pull off the heist. And it wouldn't be a movie about Daniel Ocean if there wasn't some good, almost absurd, humour thrown in somewhere. The cast is mostly eye candy (Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Garcia, Cheadle, etc), but they can definitely act and all deserve to have starring rolls in big budget films. I've been impressed in each movie by how effective Andy Garcia is as a sinister, money hungry thug in a multi-thousand dollar suit. He just works the CEO-Gangster role like he was made for it. Elliot Gould is still the quintessential cheesy bad guy - he fits that roll like a glove for some reason. The rest of the team works together so well. I don't know how the producers managed to put together such a great cast that just meshes together like a set of finely machined cogs.
3.0 out of 5 stars
fun caper film, great blu-ray extras,
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This review is from: Ocean's Thirteen [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
This 3rd in the series of fun heist films is good-looking on blu-ray, and the rich set design is definitely a highlite. Though completely implausible, Ocean's Thirteen is nonetheless enjoyable, and I quite like the addition of Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino to this caper (as well as Eddie Izzard, who I wish there was more of). The blu-ray extras are good. In addition to a commentary and deleted scenes, there are two great documentaries (approx. 25 min. ea.), Masters of the Heist (which profiles real-life thieves, and includes comments by Penn & Teller), and Vegas An Opulent Illusion (which shows the strip, and some of it's history, architecture etc.), plus a brief casino tour with producer Jerry Weintraub. The film is fun and good-looking on blu-ray, but to me it's the bonus documentaries that make the disc worth viewing. (3 - 3 1/2 stars)
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