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    Ocean’s 13
    June 21st, 2007 at 17:22

    Before all of that unpleasantness last night, I went to see Oceans 13 with JD on something of a whim. So now I’m going to attempt to review it. By “review”, I mean write a few unconnected sentences that are loosely about the film that I saw.

    Back-story: I haven’t seen Ocean’s 12, and only have vague memories of Ocean’s 11. Which probably makes me the least qualified person to judge the film. I mean, other that George Clooney, who’s review would presumably “Excellent! Recommend it to all of your friends!”.

    The film felt like an assault on my brain. Every second of the film was just an unrelenting forwarding of the plot. I realise this is how films tend to work, but there was a lot to keep up with. There was about fifty billion characters all of whom had a separate role in the plan, and the film kept jumping between them. And it was all packaged in a stylish, sickeningly brash way.

    There weren’t any sort of action set-pieces either, which I’m not entirely used to. I was expecting at least a car chase or a shoot-out or something.

    There was more humour than I was expecting, which was nice. (There’s the quote for your DVD cover, if you’re reading, Warner Bros)

    My only concern with the film is the morals. I mean, are we supposed to sympathise with a bunch of people who are robbing a casino? I don’t get it.

    And my only complaint is moderately tedious. A lot of the film hinges on the difficulties the gang face in planning the heist. “Oh no, we need to steal the diamonds too”, and so on. So it strikes me as odd that some problems earn screen time and elaborate ways of overcoming them, and other times they just magic stuff up from no where – like a helicopter. And how do you import a tunnel boring machine and get it under Vegas without anyone noticing? And how did the key people keep getting useful jobs in the casino? Surely they’d be on strict shift patterns as low paid drones and thus not be able to select to “clean” one very specific room and one very specific time?

    But this didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the film over all. Surprisingly good.

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