I really hate to be the typical movie blogger, who seems to dislike every movie they review, but I just can’t help it lately. Ocean’s 13 was one of the worst movies I have seen in all of 2007, and thats quite an accomplishment.
What do you get when you put the gang back in another sequel, in a can’t miss movie? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Oh, you get lots of really lame laugh attempts and plugs for Oprah, but thats about it. Where did the interesting heist details go? What about the comedic planning of the robbery, like Ocean’s 11 and 12? The entire cast looked bored an uninterested, delivering their lines with zero emotion.
Al Pacino’s character was laughable and forgettable, so were Clooney and Pitt. The difference in production from Ocean’s 11&12 to this disaster of a release, are night and day. The set they used for the make believe Casino was hideous. The plot to devastate a casino by having everyone win in one night, was .. well… sad. Sad that they couldn’t come up with a better plot.
The really sad part was the idea the writers had about creating a fake earthquake, by tunneling below the casino with an enormous mining machine. Because, you can just buy a tunnel machine and unload it in a city without anyone knowing? Are we that stupid, as movie watchers, that you can just throw this at us and expect us to take it at face value? If this isn’t enough, the machine breaks down and they get another one to replace it. THEY GET ANOTHER ONE TO REPLACE IT! Hello? Did anyone feel violated for having this thrown at them?
Maybe Ocean’s 13 should be labeled as a Science Fiction film, so we can at least get into the proper mental mode. The movie was terrible, I know you’ll agree once you watch it. If you want some of the screensavers, aim icons and other downloads, head over to our Ocean’s 13 page.
Ocean’s 13
Third installment fails to deliver
Here is a film that falls miserably short of the mark on all counts. If one were to take a look at the stellar cast, it reads more like a Hollywood A list than anything else. Heavyweight actors in George Clooney; Elliot Gould; Brad Pitt; Andy Garcia; Al Pacino; Matt Damon; Don Cheadle and Bernie Mac grace the screen. With such an impressive cast it comes as quite a shock the both the plot and the acting is severely handicapped.
Following a rather shady business deal, Reuben Tishkoff (Gould) is forced to sign away his share of sizable hotel assets to casino magnate Willie Bank (Pacino). Bank is the quintessential Las Vegas tycoon, replete with a huge ego and title deeds to most of sin city’s top resorts. Reuben can’t take the pressure of having been duped, so he suffers a massive heart attack.
Naturally Billy Ocean and his crew are eager to help the old man out. They put together an intricate plan to exact their revenge and meter out swindler’s justice. It’s a formidable task, given the hi-tech security at Bank’s new establishment. The target date is set for opening night. That’s make it or break it time before the official opening launch. Ocean and his crew members hatch a plan to get the upper hand over the smarmy Willie Bank. It’s not as easy as it looks and they have to enlist the help of Terry Benedict, owner of the Bellagio.
As the story unfolds, it drowns the audience in loads of techno jargon and other highfalutin geek speak. It’s an improbable scenario and there are certainly gaping holes in the screenplay. As regards the pedigree of actors in the cast, one feels that a better job could have been done. It is perhaps an overrated film which has ridden on the wave of the hugely successful Ocean’s 11.
If it’s mundane amusement you’re after, Ocean’s 13 might just do the trick.
Well, me I think that Ocean’s 13 was a pretty good movie. It had a very good list of good actors and I loved how they set up Al Pacino in the movie to crash his hotel/casino and take his diamonds too. It was not the best movie in the word but it was a little bit of comedy, action, and suspense all rolled in one.