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Ocean's Thirteen | 
 enlarge | Actors: George Clooney, Elliott Gould, Andy Garcia, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1156
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321902182216
ASIN: B000UQVGUM
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: November 5, 2007
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It comes as something of a relief to find that Ocean's 13 eases itself back to the charm and suave, sophisticated swagger that underpinned the first in what's become a trilogy of capers. And for those who endured the self-indulgent mess that was Ocean's 12, this latest and final entry in the franchise is a very welcome treat, proving very much that lessons were learnt. Dropping Catherine Zeta Jones and Julia Roberts from the cast list, but signing up the smaller matter of Al Pacino instead, the rest of the players remain broadly intact. So it's George Clooney's Danny Ocean who leads the team of cons, supported by Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle and Carl Reiner. And it's the easy chemistry between these and the rest of the team that underpin what makes Ocean's 13 such an enjoyable ride. The plot pits Ocean and his gang against Al Pacino's ruthless casino boss, and while the script perhaps lacks the cleverness and dense plotting that worked so well in the first adventure, it still leaves plenty of room for outright entertainment. The end result is an easy-to-enjoy caper, that's not the equal of Ocean's 11, yet far superior to Ocean's 12. And considering it was released in the midst of a summer where threequels generally weren't too well received, Ocean's 13 arrives in fine shape, and rounds off the trilogy with real panache. --Jon Foster
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 Smooth movie October 4, 2007
P. G. Hackett
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Enjoyable if to smooth for it's own good at times.Slick acting and smart plot, though too much rather obvious product placement. Settle down with a couple of beers on a Saturday night but don't expect to be challenged intellectually
Take the money. And run with the research. November 29, 2007
Usherette (Cumbria, UK)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Take the money. And run with the research.
Here's a great example of Hollywood with a heart!!
A bunch of multi-millionaire actors get together with a
director friend to fund vital research into Extreme Attention
Deficit Syndrome!!!
Well, yes.
Though ADS is very distressing, in this, its most severe form, Extreme
victims are unable to concentrate for more than 10 seconds. Are
incapable of following any kind of discussion. And cannot remember
anything of a sequential nature because by the time it reaches Z, they
have no recollection of A to Y.
The total number of Extreme ADS sufferers is unknown, and so the true
scale of this tragedy has been impossible to determine. Until now.
Ocean's 13, the project put together by George Clooney, Brad Pitt,
Steven Soderbergh, Al Pacino, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould,
Andy Garcia, Oprah Winfrey, Shae Wilson and a supporting cast and crew
of thousands, represents the biggest investment ever made into this
field of medical research.
Presented in the guise of "a movie", it discards the usual filmic
conventions of credibility, coherence, wit and originality,
and instead prescribes a narrative arc that starts, and finishes, at A.
Nothing in Ocean's 13 makes any sense at all because there is no
requirement for it to make sense. The requirement is, instead, to
identify the extent of Extreme ADS.
In its original form, Ocean's 13 called for God (played by Catherine
Zeta Jones) to be a failed interior decorator friend of the
pseudonymous Ocean (Clooney).
God is prevailed upon to visit a plague of locusts on a new Las Vegas
casino run almost single-handedly by its owner (Pacino) in an act of
revenge for Pacino's thuggish treatment of another of Ocean's friends
(Elliott Gould.)
The locusts are there to eat all the guests arriving
on the casino's opening night. When they've finished, the building is
to be toppled by a localised earthquake and then washed away by a Great
Flood (localised, of course) this being a Clever Visual Pun on the word
'Ocean'.
Too clever though for Extreme ADS victims.
A good thing, then, that this screenplay was junked on the grounds of
credibility: Las Vegas is known to be Godless, so even Extreme ADS
sufferers would be unable to accept that narrative proposition.
To make it more credible, then, the rewritten script has Ocean and his
friends purchase the world's largest tunnelling machine (last seen in
action under the English Channel) which they set up on The Strip whilst
nobody notices and then burrow under the earth so as to cause enough
vibrations to slightly perturb Mr Pacino's building and cause a few
things to wobble and fall over.
Obviously, Irwin Allen this ain't: the special effects cost less than
the gravy mix applied to Mr Pacino's face by way of ironic comment on
Western contemporary Society's obsession with the cosmetic rather than
the meaningful.
(Note: this aspect of the "story" was always going to escape Extreme
ADS sufferers. But to be fair, it was put in for the benefit of their
carers.)
Ocean's friends also recruit a Morecambe & Wise fan played by Eddie
Izzard together with a variety of others whose collective talents
embrace everything other than an ability to act.
There's someone in Mexico who makes or does not make dice. A man who
owns Samsung. An FBI man with acute laryngitis. A man who is arrested
and is happy. A man who is arrested and is sad. A man who is British
and Does Something. A Man Who Is Not British And Does Something.
Another Man Who Does Something Else. A Man Who Has Nothing To Do With
Anything. An Oprah Winfrey. And Brad Pitt.
There's also Ellen Barkin, re-united with Al Pacino all these years
after Sea of Love. Which was a movie. But of which, of course, Extreme
ADS sufferers possess neither knowledge nor memory.
After surviving Sea of Love, Ms Barkin here drowns her career in Clooney's Ocean.
The esteemed director Soderbergh is there to ensure that everything is
as dysfunctional as its intended audience.
He succeeds handsomely: Ocean's 13 flits from scene to scene with
neither logic nor explanation -- albeit this again has a deeper meaning:
a comment on the way so much of America's mainstream movie output is
merely the same pack of shuffled cards set down in a different order
without ever adding up to a satisfying hand.
(Well, you know where you are with Soderbergh. An intellectual thrust
is never absent from his work, and Las Vegas was always going to be too
tempting a subject to resist.)
And so Ocean's 13 goes on. And on. And on.
Simple humour abounds, of course, as it must: Extreme ADS victims
cannot comprehend anything complicated. Thus, Al Pacino's money-mad
criminal is called Mr Bank.
It's a type of rarified comedy that is particularly exemplified in
Cheadle's performance, a career-sacrificing turn of unequalled
nobility. Though then again, there is Ellen Barkin. Al Pacino. And
Clooney. And Pitt.
So the question has to be: just how successful is Ocean's 13 as a
medical research project?
The signs are certainly good: it doesn't take long to identify the
existence of Extreme ADS in the reviews of those so inattentive that
they actually thought this was a movie. Worse: even a movie worth watching.
And yes: that's very, very sad.
Hopefully though, treatment will be along soon.
VERDICT: Ocean's 13: a landmark in international medical research.
5/5 plus a bonus point for the late Cary Grant.
"I just want him to lose what matters most to him" November 1, 2007
Sebastian Fernandez (Tampa, Florida United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am one of those people that absolutely loved "Ocean's Eleven" and was extremely disappointed by "Ocean's Twelve", not because the movie was all that bad, but because it could not even compare to the first one. I am happy to report that this new film comes much closer in quality to the earlier effort, and thus, is another winner. The elements are all there, a highly entertaining storyline, plenty of funny moments, a cleverly planned revenge and an impressive cast.
There are a few differences this time around though. The plan involves destroying the empire of Willie Bank (Al Pacino), a ruthless casino mogul, who cheated Reuben out of his share of the hotel they were planning to open together. In turn, Reuben lost his will for living and is in a life-threatening state. The crew wants their revenge and to provide Reuben a reason for going on with his life. Therefore, this is a plan that involves no personal profit, well maybe just a little, but mostly the goal is to punish Bank. Another difference is that sadly, Julia Roberts is not present this time around. Finally, did you ever think that Danny Ocean and his friends will work together with Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia)? I didn't either, so brace yourself for a shock!
From cheating at the casino, to initiating a revolt among laborers in Mexico, this movie has it all. The ingredients for having a great time are all present, and mixed in the right formula. The cast does an impressive job and the addition of Al Pacino, with an excellent performance, contributes to the overall quality of the final product. Fans of Danny and his team will not be disappointed!
 Our first Ocean August 18, 2007
R. Plachcinski (West Yorkshire, England)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Ocean's Thirteen is actually the first Ocean film we saw, one rainy Sunday afternoon in the cinema, and it inspired us to watch the rest of the series. Although it starts slowly, the tension builds as the heist grows ever more elaborate, with the cinema audience so still for the last hour you could have heard a pin drop. Well worth a look.
Better than Twelve, not as good as Eleven. August 22, 2007
Sam Anders (Scotland)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ocean's Eleven was one of those rare breed of remakes that not only is vastly superior to the original but managed to spawn it's own franchise. Sadly, where Eleven delivered slick, accessible, fun and very very cool movie experience it's first sequel felt very much like there was a really great time being had, we just weren't invited. Twelve was overly smug and didn't have that same shine of sheer fun that so drove Eleven. The disappointing Twelve led many (myself included) to expect something similar this time round, we were wrong.
For once it seems film makers actually listened to the public and the second sequel sticks much closely to Eleven and is all the batter for it. The plot follows our usual band of con-men (minus Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones) as they attempt to bring down Las Vegas tycoon Al Pacino after he screws over and almost causes the death of their buddy and some-time financier Reuben. Bringing the series back to Vegas is a smart move, immediately re-injecting the glamor into the series.
All the cast are on top form with only Al Pacino seemingly oddly under-used in a movie whose run-time could have easily afforded to bulk up a bit for him. The characters are kept very strictly to their own gently surreal world with no suggestion of in-joking until the very end and this time it's actually funny. The dialog sparkles and the plot has enough nice twists in it to compensate for one horribly obvious one unfortunately central to the film.
The humor in this film is back on form with one particularly funny sequence in Mexico and a whole series of brilliant gags along the way.
Perhaps the only place this film fails is in comparison to Eleven, for all it's quality this film doesn't quite hit the mark of it's first predecessor. That said this is far from a bad movie and manges to keep the Ocean's franchise one of the most light-hearted and enjoyable in Hollywood. Definitely worth a watch.
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