Ocean's Eleven Reviews
Top CriticA lark for everybody concerned, including the audience.
This wholly enjoyable entertainment sees Soderbergh setting himself a new challenge - the hi-tech robbery procedural - and relishing the clichés even as he freshens them with a dab of polish, wit, pace and a light touch of irony.
It can, at times, be forgettable in a fun way, especially when its funniest performers are caught in Soderbergh's spinning crosshairs.
Fun-loving, carefully crafted romp.
| Original Score: 4/5
Forget Oscar, Ocean's Eleven is the coolest damned thing around.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
[A] triumph of style and story...
Despite dashes of droll dialogue from screenwriter Ted Griffin, the remake aims for cool but instead gets chilly.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Buzzes along at a mildly entertaining pitch from start to finish.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Soderbergh's crisp, funny heist flick makes out like a bandit. George Clooney and Elliott Gould steal the show.
The perfect movie for New Year's Eve.
Despite a lot of snappy dialogue supplied by screenwriter Ted Griffin, Ocean's Eleven bogs down in technological minutiae, pointless set pieces that aren't very funny and by indulging the urge to constantly sell itself.
Pure Hollywood moonshine.
| Original Score: 3/4
The new Ocean's Eleven is altogether different -- it isn't content to let star power, shtick and easy camaraderie carry the day; it works for your money.
To be sure, Soderbergh has proved his entertaining point, and done the Rat Pack one better, converting a paltry failure into a paltry success. But just how cool is that?
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Admittedly, little of Ocean's Eleven is likely to hang around in your head past closing time. But that only gives you a good excuse to see it again.
I think it's time for Soderbergh to be leaving Las Vegas.
It didn't shake me up and I wasn't much involved, but I liked it as a five-finger exercise.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top-of-the-line studio eye candy.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
A brand-new ride, complete with humor, action, explosives, good-looking men in tuxedos and high-tech toys.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
Need a good argument for remakes? Look no further than Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven.
Happily Soderbergh's updated Ocean's Eleven, reconceived by screenwriter Ted Griffin, has only three things in common with its source: a Vegas location, a casino-heist plot, and a crew of cool cuties.
| Original Score: 3/4
If you see only one utterly undemanding, totally inconsequential motion picture this season, make it Ocean's Eleven.
For those not so taken by the star power, this new Ocean's Eleven is the equivalent of a domineering team you can't stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don't like the players, the odds are so good that it's tough to bet against them.
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| Original Score: 4/5
A champagne bubble of a movie, lively, effervescent and diverting. If it bursts earlier than we'd like -- and it does -- that takes nothing away from the considerable pleasure it provides along the way.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Vastly superior to the 1960 Rat Pack original, it boasts a well-structured, if engagingly improbable, story line and a glistening cast that performs with brio.
The kind of movie that makes you wish you were having as much fun watching it as they obviously had making it.
It's extremely confusing, but you quickly learn to ignore the details and just watch the glam cast have fun.
There is considerable pleasure to be had watching a Hollywood formula crowd-pleaser, no matter how irreverent, that's been made with intelligence, wit and style.
The cinematic version of a Happy Meal -- tasty and filling, not particularly nutritious, but generally pleasing for all.
Made with so much wit and brains and dazzle and virtuosity that the sheer speed and cleverness of the caper hits you like a shot of pure oxygen.
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| Original Score: A
Jazzy and insouciant, if not quite what Frank would have called classy.
There's a world of difference between an accomplished popcorn movie like this one and one that's oversalted.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Represents a mostly successful stylistic shift into sheer artifice, where the force of the personalities involved compels your interest.
