Eleven vs. One

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2002)

"Ocean's Eleven" is a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic"; "Erin Brockovich"). It is a new and revised version of "Ocean's Eleven" (1960) with Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra. The movie starts out with Daniel Ocean (George Clooney), an ex-convict, who has just got out of jail. He meets his former partner Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt). Their intention is to coordinate and execute a robbery in a Las Vegas casino. They aim at breaking open the most secured vault in Las Vegas, which has combined revenue of Terry Benedict's (Andy Garcia) Bellagio, Mirage, and MGM casinos. First, Daniel Ocean and Rusty Ryan have to get together a team of skilled and reliable people. After finding these people; they have a total of eleven members to try to complete the `never been done before' job.
I thought this movie was good. Meaning, the characters, the setting, and the plot were all put perfectly together. It contains a superstar cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Bernie Mac, Julia Roberts, and Matt Damon. Usually a director doesn't put this many big stars into one movie, but I like it. I thought the plot moved very well. It kept me watching. The part that I liked best was when they walked straight out the door with the money. Compared to other robbery movies, this film has a different tone on how it goes about robbing. For instance, this movie has humor through the characters and gives a person a different look on the way they go about robbing the casinos.