![]() Ocean wants to steal from his ex-wife's current lover and get her back again. "Tell me it isn't about her," Rusty begs Danny. Amazingly, the movie specifies and shoots in real casinos (the Mirage, the MGM Grand and the Bellagio) and incorporates the destruction of the Desert Inn.Ĭasing the job, Rusty sees the casino owner ( Andy Garcia) with a woman he recognizes: Tess Ocean ( Julia Roberts), Danny's ex-wife. ![]() He contacts his old sidekick Rusty Ryan ( Brad Pitt) with a scheme to steal millions from not one but three Las Vegas casinos. He's a smooth operator who, his parole board notes, figured in a dozen investigations where he was never charged. The movie stars George Clooney, who can be powerfully impassive better than almost anybody, as Danny Ocean, fresh out of prison and eager for a new job. It has yearnings above its natural level, as if hoping to redeem itself and metamorphose into a really good movie. It's slick, all right: directors this good don't usually handle material this routine. ![]() That's like what Steven Soderbergh is doing in "Ocean's Eleven." This is a standard genre picture, a remake of the 1960 Frank Sinatra caper, and Soderbergh, who usually aims higher, does it as a sort of lark. Serious pianists sometimes pound out a little honky-tonk, just for fun.
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