T H E OCEAN'S TRILOGY
OCEAN'S 11
MOVIE REVIEWS
''Ocean's Eleven'' has no pretenses, yet it's a scrumptious and dizzy-spirited lark, a what-the-hell-let's-rob-the-casino flick made with so much wit and brains and dazzle and virtuosity that the sheer speed and cleverness of the caper hits you like a shot of pure oxygen.
In this remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film, George Clooney plays Danny Ocean, who plans to steal the take from three Las Vegas casinos owned by Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). Danny assembles a team for this mammoth job, which includes Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. Steven Soderbergh understood that all he had to do was show some finesse and he could get away with this low-blood-pressure heist picture, keeping the tiny germ of a story about hitting the casinos. Still, he rallies a seismic jolt of enthusiasm, and the movie is an elating blaze of flair and pride. – Elvis Mitchell