Cheadle is Basher, the demolition expert. Reiner plays the part as if he had indigestion. Livingston is the nervous technical guy Saul (Reiner) is the classy octogenarian father figure living in retirement in Florida, who comes in for the action. Then there’s a couple of good old boys found in a Utah race car drag strip, Virgil and Turk, who try to be funny but can’t come up with anything funny to say or do. The one banking the operation is Reuben (Gould), who plays a stereotype Jewish flaming fag role without distinction. The actors playing cards are played by themselves: Shane West, Joshua Jackson and Topher Grace. Then there’s his former partner Rusty (Pitt) teaching poker to young actors in Hollywood. First there’s Frank, who is dealing blackjack in Atlantic City under the false name of Ramon because he’s an ex-con. We’re stuck watching Ocean round up his crew of ten others besides himself, as each is rounded up in an unimaginative and tiring way. Garcia is a one-dimensional heavy, while Roberts is the one-dimensional love interest of both Garcia and Clooney. All three casinos are owned by the ruthless billionaire Terry Benedict (Garcia), who is also dating Ocean’s ex-wife Tess (Roberts). In the Bellagio vault there is $150 million, the receipts for what all three casinos hauled in for the day. He then begins his plan to rob three casinos, Bellagio, Mirage, and the MGM Grand, on the night of Lennox Lewis’ heavyweight championship fight at the MGM. Danny Ocean (Clooney) gets released from a New Jersey prison after serving time as a confidence man and is now a parolee. It’s a formula heist, done by-the-numbers on autopilot. If you ever saw a heist film before, this one has nothing new to add. In my opinion, the ones really robbed in this film are not the casino, but the ones who paid to see it thinking they were going to see some acting. Since there’s no tension, not even the big heist makes anyone sweat, so the only tension is to see if these cronies can pull off an entertaining film despite how there’s nothing in the script to suggest anything even remotely interesting is happening.
The acting is in the hands of a star-studded cast that features all these current crowd favorites: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and Andy Garcia. He makes Vegas a glittery feast for the eyes and offers a look inside the casino as a candy bar for the mind. Soderbergh also does the cinematography and makes use of the fast-editing style he stole from French New Wave filmmakers, which seems overkill for this lifeless film. It’s the same vacuous story, but with much better photography and a meaningless love story thrown into the venture as an afterthought to get a dame into the action. The new and less than grandiloquent Rat Pack, does the same Las Vegas casino heist by short-circuiting the Las Vegas metro area causing a momentary blackout in the casinos.
Steven Soderbergh directs a slick remake of director Lewis Milestone’s wretched 1960 military-style caper film starring Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack. “If you ever saw a heist film before, this one has nothing new to add.”
Schwartz (Bruiser) Runtime: 110 Warner Brothers 2001)
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(director/cinematographer: Steven Soderbergh screenwriters: Ted Griffin/original story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell editor: Stephen Mirrione music: David Holmes cast: George Clooney (Danny Ocean), Matt Damon (Linus Caldwell), Andy Garcia (Terry Benedict), Brad Pitt (Rusty Ryan), Julia Roberts (Tess Ocean), Casey Affleck (Virgil Malloy), Scott Caan (Turk Malloy), Don Cheadle (Basher Tarr), Elliott Gould (Reuben Tishkoff), Bernie Mac (Frank Catton, Ramon) Carl Reiner (Saul Bloom), Shane West (Himself), Joshua Jackson (Himself), Topher Grace (Himself), Eddie Jemison (Livingston Dell), Lennox Lewis (Boxer), Shaobo Qin (Chinese Circus Performer), Scott L.
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