Old-fashioned entertainment

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2020)

When I saw this film, I thought "Well, that's a surprisingly old-fashioned, lighthearted heist movie! It doesn't really have a 2001 feel to it, reminds me a lot of classical sixties movies, how quaint!" As it turns out, my feeling that this could have come straight from the 1960s was right - now I know that it is in fact a remake of a 1960 movie. And there's nothing wrong with it. It is entertaining enough, very slick, with well-known actors who seem to have fun, but of course also rather shallow and predictable. Even most of the "surprises" are rather unsurprising to viewers who know the kind of calculated plot twists typical for such movies. Therefore I don't quite get the high praise received by "Ocean's Eleven" as some kind of outstanding and most original movie; these are not its qualities. So I think that the current user consensus with a 7,7 rating here is fitting and give it an 8/10 for what it is, a well-polished heist comedy without any particular depth to it.