For me, and my guess is that this isn’t that uncommon for others, is that Ocean’s 11 was good because of how cool it was. Not that I know anything about the Rat Pack and the Sinatra/Sammy Davis Jr. days, but Ocean’s 11 felt cool. Bad ass. Just putting all those people together- when Matt Damon is one of the least cool, then you know….
So I liked Ocean’s 11, and didn’t watch 12 because of the poor reviews. I also don’t think I was that interested in watching another Ocean’s movie, but I did watch 13 today, because I had a chance to, and because of the good reviews.
And it’s not bad (and makes me not want to watch Ocean’s 12 even more, reasons why explained after the end-parentheses), but it doesn’t feel that great either. Not as cool, mainly because it jumps right into the action, which is understandable since it’s the 3rd movie so you should know who everyone is and why they’re already so cool. But even the plot is not that exciting. It’s a casino heist, but the details of the problems they need to overcome and how they’re going to do it were so complicated, at least in terms of the pacing or maybe if you don’t know anything about gambling. You get the basic idea, but I think the excitement comes from the intelligence and the audience feeling like they know how things will play out, as if you could take the ideas from the movie and then reenact them yourself.
Oh, and unlike the first two, there are no female characters, which I think did add a nice balance, at least in the first one.
Anyway, a 6/10.
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