Ocean's Thirteen 2007

The Good:

• Throughout the trilogy, the motive behind Ocean's team has changed from greed to personal enjoyment to revenge.
• The story is a whole lot more comprehensive this time around and the script makes sure it always guides the viewer on to the next face of the operation - it's easier to follow a number of small operations building up to the big heist at the end.
• Stylistically, Ocean's 13 is still very close to the previous two films, which feels safe from the point of the viewer.
• I love the return of the big stakes and the casinos as well as the clever solutions to many of the problems the team faces.
• The story progresses more evenly now and the heist itself rolls on very nicely throughout the film. The level of excitement is at best very high.
• By this move you really feel like you know the team members personally and seeing them work together is a joy.
• The heist has been expanded to slowly uncover itself throughout the entire movie.

The Bad:

• Sometimes the story feels a bit too simple and straightforward. The lack of a compelling twist at the end is a shame.
• I felt bored by the fact that they didn't shake things up stylistically for this film.
• Some of the things the team pulls off don’t seem particularly plausible in real life.
• There are some unnecessary interruptions to the otherwise well flowing heist movie.

Verdict:

Ocean's 13 marks a huge improvement over the lacklustre second movie but it feels like a pale copy of the first movie.

Now, this is an OCEAN'S MOVIE!!!!!!!!!

It easily could have just tried to copy the first Ocean's film but it didn't as this film is more of a revenge film than a heist film and the entire way through the film you want to see the Ocean Crew get there own back for Elliot Gould (Reuben Tishkoff) as he is wronged in a really horrible way. To me, this film is funnier than the first film as it had me in stitches at times and the heist is a lot more intense than in Eleven (no point mentioning Twelve), only thing was it was a little slower than Eleven in some ways.

But the main reason this film is so great is the addition of Al Pacino (Willy Bank) who before this I have never really seen him as a villain and he was just so perfect, I found I hated him so much and you want to see the crew take him down sooooooo badly. I also like the twist with bringing Andy Garcia (Terry Benedict) onto the side of the Oceans crew was genius as even though you know not to trust him you just like him so much.

Give this one a watch, I say just watch Eleven and Thirteen.

After having taken in eleven (really liked it) and twelve (didn't really like it), we thought that we would give thirteen a try this weekend. I had heard that the (alleged) finale was somewhere between the first two movies and I think that is accurate. The first film featured a heist and the way that the heist was pulled off was really clever. Once they told you the rest of the story, you saw how the answer was in front of you and you missed it. The second film featured a heist and you were thoroughly confused by the ending as to how it happened. They then went back and showed it to you and... well, you had no chance of knowing all that they showed you and that was completely unrewarding. The third film was kind of a mix. It was another heist but the entire movie was the heist. That in itself is ok, but the series of events in the heist were so implausible that at some point you just have to ask really? By the end of the film I was half-expecting a Blazing Saddles ending. I just don't think that rigging all of the Vegas games and then causing an earthquake underneath the hotel works for me. Besides, if they could rig the Vegas games, why wouldn't they just do that and make that the way to get their buddy his casino?