Vacuous entertainment.

Rating: 5/10 (1 August 2003)

This is a weak remake of a movie that wasn't very good in the first place.

There's no acting per se - just the plot, a casino robbery. George Clooney plays George Clooney, Brad Pitt plays Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts is The Girl. Elliott Gould looks old, Carl Reiner is old. The actors do just enough to advance the story, nothing else. There is no character development, just characters.
And the plot isn't good enough to carry the show. The film is basically the planning and execution of a casino robbery, and the way they carry it out isn't a bit believable.
I don't know what Steven Soderbergh was thinking of when he made this film. It's the equivalent of airline food - it looks like a movie, but it's really just a cardboard imitation of one. And of course, they're filming a sequel, because ....... it made money.