A sure thing; bet on the bank - "13" is a magic #

Rating: 8/10 (12 June 2007)

OCEAN'S THIRTEEN (2007) *** George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, Elliott Gould, Don Cheadle, Eddie Jemison, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Bernie Mac, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner, Eddie Izzard, Vincent Cassel, Bob Einstein, Andy Garcia, David Paymer Julian Sands. Better-than-anticipated reuniting of the Ocean's con men out to settle a personal score when their old buddy Gould is welched on a multi-million dollar deal with a new Vegas casino by jerk, a-hole business partner Pacino, whose vicious greed gets the goats of the crew to level him in one of the most convoluted, yet entertaining, big score grift. New life is breathed into the franchise thankfully by a sharp screenplay by scribe team Brian Koppelman and David Levien (ROUNDERS) and some truly razzle-dazzle, glitzy cinematography by Peter Andrews AKA filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, who reigns in his motley crew for one final round of carousing high-dealing shenanigans. A sure thing.