Ocean's Eleven





One of my favorites.

A

I enjoyed it. One of the best crime movies of the last 10 years btw.

A-

One of the best heist films ever.

A

One of the best films EVER

A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

All style and no substance; like most Steven Soderbergh films. The movie is overlong with an emsemble cast so large that many characters get no development, for instance, Matt Damon. I also found the movie to be too clever by half, especially the ending, which made Clooney come off as smarmy. Julie Roberts also looked unpleasent.

I think the appeal of the movie came from the location, but once that expirence wore off, we were exposed to a so-so movie caper movie where we felt the characters were never truly in danger, no matter how menacing Andy Garcia tried to be.

C.

edit: seems this was an Ocean's 12 review.

Extremely entertaining. Probably the best heist film there is.

A

Ocean's Eleven is easily one of the most entertaining films I've seen in the past few years. Yes it's style over substance, but if it was the other way around, you would have a boring three hour film where we know too much about the characters, instead of just having fun while watching the group pull of the heist. Besides, in the running time we learn enough about each character to know why they're there.

As for the look of the film, well I'm pretty much in agreement with everyone else. The film is absolutely stunning to look at. The bright lights of Vegas are, well, bright. The scene at the waterfall with the group is a great shot.

The acting isn't anything to be impressed over, but what I did like is that they all seem like they're enjoying themselves.

Overall, it's a very entertaining film. I enjoyed every second of it.

A+

Great Film. An amazing cast, and all of them did great. The heist was such as good idea, and in the end had me tricked for awhile and had to watch it again. A

Slick and shallow, but so damned entertaining that I love watching it over and over again, even if I know it all by heart. The dialogue is just so witty and clever and hilarious, even if the whole thing just reeks of smarminess and pretense. The plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you think about it, and the cast are basically just playing themselves, but none of that really bothers me while I'm watching it. Yes, it's style over substance, but the style is so superbly done that it doesn't really matter. Besides, it's not a stupid film, just not an overtly deep one. Just a very fun caper flick.

A lot of talk with little payoff.

**

A.

Fantastic fun film.

One of my favorite films of the 00's.

(Original review from Dec. 2001)


Out to Sea - Ocean's 11

Some cool stuff going on in Ocean's 11, but the story dawdles along and doesn't have any snap to it. There's lots better heist movies out there than this one, including this year's The Score. The big name actor's were some fun to watch - George was George, not necessarily a good thing; Brad's already done way better work this year in Snatch and Spy Game; Matt was nondescript; Julia was barely in the film -- I liked some of the lesser 11 more, it was especially nice to see Carl Reiner back on the screen. I went to Las Vegas for the first time last year, and even this setting was shown in an underwhelming manner. C'mon this is the guy who made The Limey (an outstanding film!) - Soderbergh's definitely slumming it on this one, or should I say slumping it -- Traffic and Erin Brokovitch were none too good either...

2 out of 5.

B


It was disappointing to me. I tuink this is a case of a film when you've got an excellent cast together, but instead of it actually working together and having chemitsry, all they do most of the time is stand around looking cool and talking some trivial stuff. It is a great cast ensemble on paper, not such a great one de facto, though. I see it in contrast to such films as Sin City or The Family Stone where the cast ensemble actually interacts very well. Here the ensemble was just shamefully underused. The rest of the film is just your typical heist flick. Entertaining most of the time, though never outstanding. I was really let down that I didn't enjoy the film as much I hoped to. However, I thought that the sequel was actually decent and not really worse than the original.

Maybe I'll like the third film more, but that is doubtful as the franchise seems to have found its forumla and that's not the one I enjoy in particular.

One of my all time favorite films. A+

exactly my opinion, I am actually going to form a review of this film tomorrow, because this is one of my favorite films (not one of the best though) but I am tired to do it now.

Agreed. I watch it just about every time it's on TNT.

A very solid and highly enjoyable heist flick. It's the best of its franchise and still a lot of fun to watch more than seven years later.

B+

Enormous fun. A-

This is an odd analysis of the series.

O13 did indeed return to the original formula as you predicted, but if anything O12 didn't continue the formula, it broke the mold (which was the reason it was hated by many and loved by some)...

Great film that does well with the premise. Two things the heist in itself if never WOW, plus the characters do not have chemistry among each other. Other than that its great movie that's re-watchable with stars doing great individually.

Loved it back in the day, enjoyed both sequels too. But my fondest memory is the A+ paper I wrote about it in college. My theory explored the idea that the entire movie takes place in Clooney's mind thinking about what he'll do when he gets out (The question asked by the parole board in the opening of the movie)