Ocean’s thirteen-Baroque larceny!
Danny Ocean’s crew walks in this time earmarking another casino but with a different incitement altogether. The master gangleader behind this plot, director Steven Soderbergh hits the bulls eye for the third time supported by his same old financier Jerry Weintraub and sets the cash registers ringing at the box office. The writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien walks off bagging three golden eggs for blending art and smart to perfection. The cast goes unchanged from the previous movie save Catherine Zeta Jones and Julia Roberts .The reason which Danny gives for it is that “Things are not that fine”.This movie had a tough competition in its opening week and the credit go to Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek 3, Surf’s up and Knocked up. Despite these messy foxes,Ocean’s crew stole the box office.
The plot blooms when the members of Ocean’s crew congregate around the sick Reuben’s(Elliott Gould) bed. They realise that Reuben had been cozened by Willy Bank (Al Pacino),intimidating him to give up his shares in the latter’s new hotel and dictating his cardiac arrest. Followed by this we see Danny Ocean{George Clooney} visiting the rancourous Bank exhorting him to give back Reuben’s share but the vindictive Bank answers in negative,paving way to Ocean’s next mission of bankrupting his Casino. The Oceans also feel that any likelihoods of the Five diamond award going to Bank should be wiped out. So Danny and Rusty{Brad Pitt} begin with polluting Bank’s hotel rooms. The Artificial intelligence system used by Bank to overlook everything in the casino delivers a big thorn our players’ path. So they hire Roman Nagel (Eddie Izzard) for his connoisseurship in breaking security systems. He brings them out that its one of the most foolproof systems which thinks and reasons, it could only be stopped by a natural disaster or by a magnetron, that too for Tenscore seconds. When Danny and Rusty break their head to pool up money for buying a tunnel boring machine to create an earthquake like sensation, Linus{Matt Damon} jumps in and enlightens them that they could go to their old enemy Terry Benedict{Andy Garcia} for pecuniary support. As a loathing trio,Danny,Rusty and Linus agree to Terry Benedict’s terms when he demands for double the amount of his investment and the diamond necklaces which Willy Bank has purchased in advance to celebrate his achievement of the five diamond award. According to Danny’s master plan they are going to fiddle the cards, dice and the shuffling machine so that the casino loses. Now the tunnel boring accoutrement serves two purposes to the oceans. The first one is that it ‘ll stop the Artificial Intelligence System and secondly makes sure that the winners don’t stay there long to lose the money won,once again to the hotel. Dice start rolling and our stomachs too. A slow steady simple and stylistic plot. Get, set, go and lose your heart to this ritzy,spiffy robbers.
As usual George Clooney calls the shorts and paints his character like a playwright inside a play. Al Pacino blends his soul with the character of a rich businessman and shines well as an aghast businessman towards the end. Brad Pitt has only a little part to play in this movie since most of his previous burdens are shouldered by his senior accomplice George Clooney. Matt Damon performs his nitwit appearing but wit, grit character smooth to the essence. Apart from this all the other thieves steal their medals well.
Though the plot appears immune to holes,a keen observer could raise the million dollar question, why Willy Bank is not willing to go to the police and why the FBI couldn’t continue with their investigation. Above all why didn’t Bank turn back to see the received files immediately? Apart from these things the robbery is successful. Technically speaking Peter Andrew’s camera aids the director to snatch his cup, while Stephen Mirrione’s editing makes us to writhe in certain places. David Holmes‘s music is mesmerising as ever before. So this movie is a simple thread spun very complexly and compactly around two characters. If this is going to be the last of the Ocean series the director has delivered a perfect grand finale. So Ocean’s Eleven says “ If you ‘Plan’ wisely and im’plan’t successfuly,you are trans’plan’ted to the victory ‘plan’et.
-Spontic
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