Sunday, June 10, 2007

Ocean 13

Another sequel in 2007 summer blockbuster period, ocean 11 was really good as not much of such kind of movie. The plan and the execution makes it soothing to watch, then came ocean 12, a bit draggy for me and abit of too much twists towards the end.

Ocean 13 was just about 2 hours, the pacing was just nice and the story was straight forward. When willie bank double crossed reuben and left him in some kind of shocked state, hospitalized, down and out.

This gave the ocean's 10, a very strong common motive to work towards to. They will crushed willie's new hotel/casino by cashing out on it and most importantly, made it lose the Royal review board's 5 diamonds awards.

All the minds came together, with another almost perfect plan.

On the very night when it will be open, the major tables will be losing near in total to 5,000,000,000 millions and that in 3 1/2 mins when the so called "Super Computer" will be down.

Somehow, everybody understands yen and he understands everybody ... Hmmmm.

Almost perfect plan got some problem, they need to buy a 36 million dollar drill and not enough money. So benedict was brought into their plan, but the condition was they have to steal all the diamonds that willie won. Something even which the ocean's 10 said was impossible, but they have no choice.

One of the task required was to get equipment that will help them to win at the tables. Dices that flipped around with a flick of a light. These were made at some sweatshop in mexico, where 200+ workers worked cow worked horse. In the end, there was a strike, they demand a pay rise, $36,000. The ocean calculated that will amount to about 7 million, they pondered ... but then found out, total was $36,000, not for each worker.

In the end, they did get the diamonds, the money and also the bank failed to get the award. As the fake 5 diamonds judge, played by Saul, successfully fitted into the plan. The real judge became ocean's 10 target and the stay was simply nightmarish.

And alls well ends well, they got even with willie. His opening night will be one he want to forget.
A very entertaining movie. 8/10

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