Cool Movie with Cool Actors

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2001)

I saw Ocean's Eleven and I must say that it is the coolest movie of the year and one of the best. George Clooney and Brad Pitt lead a pack of 11 in robbing three casinos in Vegas. Not only do they want to steal $150 million, but George's titular character Danny Ocean wants to get his ex-wife back, Julia Roberts. Watching Danny assemble this team and watching them practice and execute their heist, you realize just how much of a master Steven Soderbergh is. You realize that he can handle the lightweight and fun stuff just as well he can handle the heavy and dramatic stuff e.g. Traffic and Erin Brockovich. You can say he hits a opposite field home run with this one. The last 45 minutes or so, as the team is pulling off the heist, is the best as you see elements of the plans unfold as well as surprises and twists. All of the actors do a wonderful job here. Clooney and Pitt are just supremely cool. Don Cheadle is funny as the man with the Cockney accent. Everyone else, Matt Damon, Elliot Gould, and others pull off their roles convincingly. A perfect combination of great acting, dialogue, cinematography (Don't let the name Peter Andrews for Cinematography fool you. It's Soderbergh himself), music, and sound. It all adds up to being one of the best films of the year.