Thus I am free to enjoy without feeling as if I'd sold out to crass commercialism—I have, but willfully and pleasurably. ![]() But the Ocean's franchise, like the Bond's, has a cachet all its own with eye-pleasing duds, high-tech high jinx, and self-referential dialogue. I go to most movies as a film critic with my sensibility well-guarded against the fluffy confection of just another heist. No honor among these slick reprobates, and good time is had by all the men and, this time, not Julia Roberts, but Clooney's real-life squeeze, Ellen Barkin, as Abigail Sponder, tough right hand to Bank. "The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief." Shakespeare's Othello Andy Garcia's wealthy Terry Benedict is financing Danny Ocean's Vegas heist from casino owner Willie Bank (Al Pacino) in order to get the last smile of vengeance, thief to thief, while Danny and Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) exact their own revenge.
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