SPOILERS! You've been warned.
Rated PG
Last seen: 1 year ago
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
CHARACTERS
Danny Ocean - Just released from prison. Decides right off the bat that he want to rob 3 major casinos.
Rusty Ryan - Danny's sidekick to the robberies.
Terry Benedict - The owner of 3 major casinos in Las Vegas, by coincedence.
Linus Caldwell - A careful, conscious pick pocket.
Tess Ocean - Danny's wife and since he went to jail, now with Terry Benedict.
The rest of the Eleven - People committed to the rest of the plot.
PLOT
First, let me just tell you how dissapointed I was with Ocean's Twelve. Don't see it. It doesn't add anything to the first one. Seeing the first story is actually better, because the second one just fucks it up.
The story begins with Danny Ocean applying for parole. He meet up with the parole officers and they finally let him go, after three parole denials. Denied him parole three times with good reason too! The first thing Danny does it visit his friend Rusty, who teaches celebrities to play poker. The celebrities that day were Holly Marie Combs, Topher Grace, Shane West and Barry Watson. Why is this important? It's not, but that's how frivolously it was added in. So, Danny strikes up a conversation with Rusty and lets him know of his plans. Rusty agrees to this.
The first thing they need to do is get money to fund their project. They approach another casio owning friend of theirs. He is apprehensive first, telling him an amusing piece about the three most succesful robberies that all ended in failure. Rusty and Danny convince him. They line up a whole bunch of recruits to do some dirty work. My particular favorite was Linus Caldwell. And it's not just because he's cute. He was so careful and willing and he could pick-pocket so well too! All of these people together make up Ocean's Eleven.
The staking out of the casino begins as Saul Bloom (one of the eleven) to checks into the casino as an important customer. Rusty soons finds out that Tess works there from Linus who happened to point her out. Rusty gets angry with Danny because he's robbing the casino's to get back at Terry for dating Tess while he was in jail.
The whole idea and the complications in the plot are difficult to explain, requiring a lot of background information. The intricacy of it all is probably what makes the film as good as it is. But, as I explained before, too difficult to summarize.
It a very good movie and the ending, needless to say, ends happily.
FAVORITE SCENE
Linus stealing the thing from the dude.
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