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Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Cast: Michael Cassidy, Steve Lambert, Corey Michael Eubanks, more...
Director: Steven Soderbergh, Steven Soderbergh
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Studio: Warner Home Video
Genre: Capers
Running Time: 117 min.
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
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Synopsis
A rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons team up for the heist to end all heists in this high-profile remake of the 1960 Rat Pack favorite. As with its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven opens with its titular hero Danny Ocean (George Clooney stepping into the Frank Sinatra role) eager for a new challenge. The similarities to the original end there, as Ocean conspires with his old pal Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) to rob 150 million dollars from an underground vault that serves three of Las Vegas' biggest casinos. Between the two of them, they recruit nine other men, each with his own criminal specialty, to assist in the mission: moneyman Reuben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould), card dealer Frank (Bernie Mac), pickpocket Linus (Matt Damon), aging con artist Saul (Carl Reiner), British explosives pro Basher (Don Cheadle), techie Dell (Eddie Jemison), rude-boy brothers Virgil (Casey Affleck) and Turk (Scott Caan), and professional acrobat Yen (Shaobo Qin). What Ocean doesn't tell the group is that there's another reason he's coordinating the heist: the three casinos they're robbing are all owned by ruthless gambling mogul Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), who just happens to be married to Ocean's former love Tess (Julia Roberts). Ocean's Eleven was updated by scribe Ted Griffin and marked the third feature shot by director Steven Soderbergh under the alias Peter Andrews. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide





Special Features:

  • HBO First Look: The Making of Ocean's Eleven and The Look of the Con Documentaries
  • Two Audio Commentaries: one with stars Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Brad Pitt, the other with Director Steven Soderbergh and Screenwriter Ted Griffin
  • Theatrical Trailers


Special Features:

  • HBO First Look: The Making of Ocean's Eleven and The Look of the Con Documentaries
  • Two Audio Commentaries: one with stars Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Brad Pitt, the other with Director Steven Soderbergh and Screenwriter Ted Griffin
  • Theatrical Trailers



GreenCine Member Reviews

Sends the original packing! by PotatoesBrowning October 15, 2002 - 9:04 PM PDT
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The true test for me as to whether a thriller delivers the goods or not is #1 whether or not my palms sweat during the more suspenseful scenes, and #2 that I actually laugh at moments that are supposed to provide comic relief. This movie effortlessly met both criteria. By chapter four, I was clutching a roll of paper towels, by chapter twenty, I was practically shredding it. I was constantly putting the DVD into reverse to re-listen to the withering one-liners delivered by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Bernie Mac. The plot hatched by Clooney and his crew--taking the three-casino-heist of the 1960 original and dragging it firmly into high tech twenty first century America--is so arrogantly outrageous, I didn't know whether to cheer them on, or hope they got caught. I was finally won over by Clooney's and Pitt's cool cynicism and absolutely vicious wit. The 2001 version of "Ocean's 11" is also to be commended for improving on the original by upping the racial diversity factor: it added two black men to Sammy Davis Jr's one, plus a Chinaman, plus a corpulent old man (possibly Jewish, I don't know) who everyone thought would be a bumbler, but who fooled us all with his transformation into an icy, vaguely East European industrialist. It is perhaps unfair to expect the original to stand the test of time after forty-two years and still come off as the hip and witty offering it probably seemed to audiences back then, but for my money, the '01 version absolutely crushed the original. Rent it!




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