Ocean's 13

What happens when you get some of the worlds hottest talent all together, play music with awesome bass lines, and they are all wearing sunglass?

This.

Ocean's 13 is the next of Danny Ocean's big crime schemes. So, what's the deal this time? Well, when Willie Bank (Al Pacino), one of Vegas' largest and most corrupt casino owners ripps off Rueben (Elliot Gould) and cause him to nearly die, they got to get him back. The plan: rig all the games so that they break the house in one night. The problem: the most soficticated anti-cheating system in the world.

If you didn't like Ocean's 12, don't worry about this one. Ocean's 12 was just an excuse for rich guys to hang out, be rich, and make a lot of money and laugh all the way to the bank while we bought tickets. This is actually about telling a story and works much better as a sequel than Ocean's 12 did. The crew belongs in Vegas. It just fits, not in Europe fighting over some fabroche egg.

All the actors are back in top form. We do not get the fun "asembling the team" sequence that we get with these sort of films, but it doesn't really matter when you have all these great characters that we have had fun with the last movies. Clooney is great as Ocean and Pitt is great as Rusty. There are 2 people who really step up and shine in this movie: one is Matt Damon as Linus and the other is Casey Affleck as Virgil. In fact, Virgil supplied the biggest laughs in the movie for me. I don't want to spoil any ounce of his brilliant subplot, but it is hilarious and I loved every moment he was on screen. Damon does a great job here and is given more material than he has in the past 2 movies. Urg! In a movie about surprises I don't want to tell you what they do, but god damn it is great.

The final breaking of the bank is the highlight of the movie, as with the first Ocean's. They are tricky, they are sneaky, and all these weird things that we see them doing throughout the movie is finally tied up and we go "OOOOOOOOOOH!" It is so great, especially since you are entirely invested in the movie.

The new addition of this movie is Al Pacino as Willie Bank, the foe in this plot. Now, there are times I LOVE Pacino (The Godfather and S1mone) and times I HATE Pacino (Scarface). Here, I thought he was pretty good. He is charismatic and nice around the people he likes/needs and ruthless around the ones he doesn't. He is pretty good, but not as unlikable as Benedict.

If there is one downfall in this movie, it doesn't seem as if the stakes are incredibly high, compared to the first film. I mean, there Ocean had his love and all that money. Also, Andy Garcia was just so much better of a villian than Pacino, because he had everything our hero wanted.

This was a very fun film that I throughly enjoyed from start to finish. I would say it is the safest bet of the 3 movies out so far (even though my favorite is Spider-Man 3). It retains enough elements of the original to make us go "oh yea" and while taking the story to another place, even if it gets a bit farfetched at times. The other nice thing about it: it is short. Clocking in roughly under 2 hours it doesn't outstay its welcome like some of the 3 movies. *cough* PIRATES *cough*