With the release of Ocean's Thirteen, it may be appropriate to look back at the original Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve before we can render a good judgment on the latest film. It has been a while since the first release so let's briefly go over the plot.
Actually, Ocean's Eleven is itself a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper film Ocean's Eleven. Yet it bears little resemblance to the original. George Clooney plays an ex con, sophisticated thief. He is extremely bright and wants to commit the biggest heist ever. Part of the reason is personal. He wants to get even with the owner of the Blaggio casino, Terry Benedict. Ocean's ex wife is now seeing Benedict. Ocean figures he will steal all of Benedict's money, and then get his ex wife back. He recruits the absolute best thieves and con men in the business to pull it off.
In order to get to the vault, Ocean has to set up two robberies. He knows that it will be almost impossible to pull it off. So the first robbery has to be extremely successful so it looks real. Just to get to the point where they would fail would take a lot of planning. The second robbery, the real thing, depends on Benedict being convinced that the first robbery was real. So much so that he calls in a SWAT team to take out Ocean's group. Ocean, however is one step ahead. The phone call to SWAT is rerouted to Ocean who sends in his own team. Ocean's first team "arrests" his second team. By the time Benedict realizes he has been fooled, Ocean and his money (yes, and even his ex wife) are long gone.
It's a real good movie. The only problem is you have to pay attention the whole time. You can't miss even a minute of the plot, because you will have no idea how the heist works. It can also be difficult to keep track of eleven main characters!
However, it is definitely worth it. Go rent it before you go spend money on the new Ocean's Thirteen.
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