JourneywomanOcean's Thirteen - A Very Boyish Sequel
June 19th 2007 03:53
The sequel that should have been Ocean's Twelve
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and Al Pacino are not what you associate with geeky, and yet in this fast paced action flick they all deliver lines and plod about the screen in a way that would not seem out of place in a Woody Allen movie!
Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon head-up the boys team
Pacino provides in spades exactly what Ocean's Twelve lacked - a convincing (and entertainingly eccentric) villain
This is a sophisticated popcorn movie with an excellent cast of talent, a confusing but still somehow legible plot, an excellent script and a fantastic if unlikely conclusion with plenty of room for a sequel. Ocean's Fourteen will probably be announced sometime next year. Given that the backdrop of Las Vegas casinos has served well as a location twice now they would do well to go with a variation on a theme.
Ellen Barkin provides "the girl
However, that said, the guys do get the cash... lots and lots of cash. And surely that can amount to the same thing as a guy gets girl ending? Well can't it?
Australian audiences seem to think so at any rate as Ocean's Thirteen has shot to the number two spot on the Box-Office top ten while holding steady at the same spot in the US underneath the newly released action-puff Fantastic Four 2.
While Ocean's Thirteen is not MUST-SEE cinema it is definitely going to be a cherished member of many DVD collections and certainly enough to make audiences forget that there ever was an Ocean's Twelve. And for once... I'm actually looking forward to the sequel.
Ocean's Fourteen - bring it on!
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Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
I havent seen the third one so maybe its better but the first one's style and vibe seems so generic and the storyline so predictable, there just seems to be no energy. It doesnt stand next to the Rat Pack original, which felt almost like an organised mess, barely staying together and unintentionally adding to the haphazard tone and frantic energy of the heists.
But I need more than surface entertainment and ask alot of this type of genre film, the public seems to really dig them. For my money I take Out Of Sight as teh definitive Soderburgh heist fantasy.