Entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2002)

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Take one successful director(Steven Soderbergh) and several big names(George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and etc.). Take a film from the 60's and make a remake with the above list and what you got is this film. It can sometime go wrong and the result will be a disaster, but Ocean's Eleven is an example that it can sometime have a good ending. Because this is a film that have so much style and is very polished you can forget that the premise is as old as movie making. The premise of the perfect robbery. And yet under that old premise, lies a subtext which is as enjoyable as the main one. The subtext deal with making a movie and the relation between fiction and reality. While these are not the main subjects of the film there are there, in the air, in what people says and the whole execution of the robbery.
The cast(old and new) is good and they are on spot with the characters. They seems to enjoyed their parts very much(Julia Roberts' presence was not essential and her role could have been done by someone else). Soderbergh is in full control and delivered a work which seems effortless. Like making a film(and a robbery) could not be easier than this. I enjoyed this film very much and everyone who like to be enjoyed and entertained should go and see the film.