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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
This is the 'The Last Crusade' of this trilogy, the one after they tried something different that not everybody liked, so they recreate the ingredients of the first movie but are content to coast a bit on our affection for the characters. 'Ocean's Thirteen' is back in Las Vegas for another casino heist and has some proper emotional stakes to get invested in. Elliott Gould on his death bed and Al Pacino as the man who put him there, give us and the team something to work for and against. It's basically the Lonnegan/Luther impetuous from 'The Sting', so we don't need to care that the team have a financial victory, as they're out for a moral one. Don Cheadle's cockney accent is still pretty dire but now he's moved on to inventing British slang terms, because presumably he thought the American audience wouldn't know the difference. I'm almost tempted to say 13 equals 11, it's an action-heist-comedy blast that made me smile all the way through. It's bigger and brighter but it hasn't got quite the same semi-believable atmosphere, sexiness and panache.
This is the 'The Last Crusade' of this trilogy, the one after they tried something different that not everybody liked, so they recreate the ingredients of the first movie but are content to coast a bit on our affection for the characters. 'Ocean's Thirteen' is back in Las Vegas for another casino heist and has some proper emotional stakes to get invested in. Elliott Gould on his death bed and Al Pacino as the man who put him there, give us and the team something to work for and against. It's basically the Lonnegan/Luther impetuous from 'The Sting', so we don't need to care that the team have a financial victory, as they're out for a moral one. Don Cheadle's cockney accent is still pretty dire but now he's moved on to inventing British slang terms, because presumably he thought the American audience wouldn't know the difference. I'm almost tempted to say 13 equals 11, it's an action-heist-comedy blast that made me smile all the way through. It's bigger and brighter but it hasn't got quite the same semi-believable atmosphere, sexiness and panache.