Who said remakes are a bad idea?

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2003)

"Ocean's Eleven" is a remake which certainly is worth seeing --- if you like this type of movies like I do. Frank Sinatra's film seems really naive compared with this one, which also looks naive if we don't suspend our disbelief, but I think each viewer is able to do that and enjoy the movie or at least enjoy the actors on it. There is one interesting point: the films of the 50s and 60s which tell the story of thieves usually are spoilers (I don't know if this is the right word to use here) because they make us like the thieves and then they are caught in the end (for example: "The Day they Robbed the Bank of England"). So, one thing good about movies about thefts nowadays is that we can be fairly sure that our favorite characters are going to get away with it, like for example "The Entrapment" with Sean Connery, or "The Thomas Crown Affair" with Pierce Brosnan. "Ocean's Eleven" seems to me to be better than these movies. Don't miss it if you understand what I have been talking about.