Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
Ocean's Thirteen is a slick, watchable return to the series' original groove, but critics were divided on whether Soderbergh's style-forward approach adds up to anything substantial. Admirers found the filmmaking genuinely inventive; skeptics felt the ensemble coasts on movie-star charm while the film refuses to give its characters any real weight.
“Ocean's Thirteen proceeds with insouciant dialogue, studied casualness, and a lotta stuff happening, none of which I cared much about because the movie doesn't pause to develop the characters, who are forced to make do with their movie-star personas.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“It is all quite meaningless. As if in an experimental novel by B. S. Johnson, the scenes could be reshuffled and shown in any order and it would amount to the same thing. There is no human motivation and no romance.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“Playing inside the box and out, [Soderbergh] has learned to go against the grain while also going with the flow. In Ocean's Thirteen he proves that in spades by using color like Kandinsky and hanging a funny mustache on Mr. Clooney's luscious mug, having become a genius of the system he so often resists.”
Manohla Dargis·The New York Times
Crime, Thriller
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
Ocean's Thirteen is a slick, watchable return to the series' original groove, but critics were divided on whether Soderbergh's style-forward approach adds up to anything substantial. Admirers found the filmmaking genuinely inventive; skeptics felt the ensemble coasts on movie-star charm while the film refuses to give its characters any real weight.
“Ocean's Thirteen proceeds with insouciant dialogue, studied casualness, and a lotta stuff happening, none of which I cared much about because the movie doesn't pause to develop the characters, who are forced to make do with their movie-star personas.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“It is all quite meaningless. As if in an experimental novel by B. S. Johnson, the scenes could be reshuffled and shown in any order and it would amount to the same thing. There is no human motivation and no romance.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“Playing inside the box and out, [Soderbergh] has learned to go against the grain while also going with the flow. In Ocean's Thirteen he proves that in spades by using color like Kandinsky and hanging a funny mustache on Mr. Clooney's luscious mug, having become a genius of the system he so often resists.”
Manohla Dargis·The New York Times
Crime, Thriller
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