Lived up to the hype

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2002)

I had been waiting 7 months to see Oceans 11 ever since it was promoted in Total Film and Empire. My anticipation grew. During this period I saw the masterpiece Fellowship of The Ring, and that the best cinema movie I had seen all year.
Now there are three ways a hyped movie can go. It can be crap like What Lies Beneath, it can be great but not live up to your expectations like Star Wars Episode 1, or it can succeed your expectations and be a superb and shockingly cool movie like Oceans 11.
I'm sure people are sick of the A-List Cast by now. I have to say that every single performance in the movie is crafted to perfection and even Don Cheadle manages to use his somewhat dodgy cockney accent well by doing it for laughs.
Brad Pitt is Cool, Clooney is Charismatic, Julia Roberts is radiant, Andy Garcia is evil, Matt Damon is great and Affleck/Caan are great comic relief.
I give this 10 out of 10 and it's worth seeing for the superb cinematography by Steven Soderbergh