Ocean's Eleven

Ocean of froth

Probably not a lot of point in criticising this one, but I found it a lukewarm version of "Mission Impossible", with some very annoying macho characters.

Maybe Sinatra and his boozy, misogynistic rat pack companions were the height of cool when the original was made over 50 years ago, but times have (thankfully) changed.

Julia Roberts - referred to at one point as another character's "worldly goods" or some such - cannot alone compensate for the bloke-ish posturing of the over-rated Brad Pitt.

And what's more, it's really boring.

Think I'll give Ocean's 12 a miss.

[Highly rated reviewer]

superb..................

this film is superb... George Clooney is Danny Ocean, an ex -convict who was jailed on fraud charges.

He is now released from Prison, and decides to rob three of Las Vegas's largest and wealthiest casinos, the Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand, owned by Terry Benedict played by Andy Garcia, who now has a relationship with Ocean's ex-wife Tess, played by Julia Roberts.

With the help of his old friend Rusty Ryan, played by Brad Pitt, Danny gathers together a crew of 11 people, to help him rob in one night all three casinos, a plan never accomplished by any man.

the crew are:

1) Frank Catton (Bernie Mac),

2) Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt),

3) Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), inventor of the casino security systems and huge enemy of Terry Benedict,

4) Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck)

5) Turk Malloy (Scott Caan), twin brothers,

6) Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison), electronics expert and currently working for the FBI,

7) Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle), explotions - munitions expert,

8) Yen (Shaobo Qin), 'the grease man',

9) Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner),

10) Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), who is the son of one of Ocean's best friends,

plus 11) Danny Ocean (George Clooney), who is the 11th member and the leader of the crew.

Danny explains his plan to the crew, but although the plan is very clever, it is going to be virtually impossible to break the security system.

So, they decide that the big robbery night will be the night, where a very important boxing game will be taking place, when the vault will be containing over $163 million dollars.

do they succeed? watch this fantastic film to find out.