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Ocean's Eleven (1960)

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During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off five Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick of needing his oft-married mother's money, especially now that she's about to wed Duke Santos (Cesar Romero), a self-made man with all sorts of underworld ties. After he receives the news that he could

Unrated, 2 hr. 8 min.

Drama, Classics, Comedy

Harry Brown, Charles Lederer

May 13, 2008

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (15) | DVD (11)

Laboring under the handicaps of a contrived script, an uncertain approach and personalities in essence playing themselves, the production never quite makes its point, but romps along merrily unconcerned that it doesn't.

June 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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Terminally boring.

June 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Young people are likely to find this more appropriate and bewitching than do their elders. The latter are likely to feel less gleeful in the presence of heroes who rob and steal.

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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The original Ocean's is fun, fun, fun.

December 17, 2001 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
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Chummy caper comedy, mainly for Rat Pack fanciers.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

There are many incidental pleasures to be had.

June 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Considering the iconic status of all involved, the result is disappointing.

June 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Sinatra, Davis, and Martin performed their club acts at night and worked on this Las Vegas-set film during the day, and the good time they were having fairly jumps off the screen.

June 10, 2009 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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The heist itself, though, is a superb piece of movie-making.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

One suspects that the most memorable moments occurred off-camera.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Sluggishly paced, shoddily staged, and featuring a plot full of inconsistencies

April 25, 2003 Comment
Lawrence Journal-World

At least as entertaining as the remake. Probably better.

March 27, 2003 Comment
Juicy Cerebellum

Tepid. The idea is so much better than the execution.

March 12, 2003 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Ocean's Eleven

Oceans 11 always is a fun thing to watch, its one of those movies that make us love going to the cinema.

August 15, 2011
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Brad Wright

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Whilst I did watch this the wrong way around, ie. The remake before the original, I was pleasantly surprised with the differences between the two. Whilst the main plot sort of remains the same, this version does give you songs from the Rat pack and managed to give a surprise ending differing from that of the remake.

August 4, 2006
76Majikat

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