Ocean's Thirteen

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Ocean's Thirteen
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Directed by	Steven Soderbergh
Produced by	Jerry Weintraub
Written by	Brian Koppelman David Levien
Narrated by	George Clooney
Starring	George Clooney Brad Pitt Matt Damon Andy Garcia Scott Caan Don Cheadle Casey Affleck Elliott Gould Bernie Mac Al Pacino Ellen Barkin Eddie Izzard
Music by	David Holmes
Cinematography	Steven Soderbergh
Editing by	Stephen Mirrione
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	June 8, 2007
Running time	122 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$85,000,000
Gross revenue	$309,154,724
Preceded by	Ocean's Twelve
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Ocean's Thirteen is a 2007 film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring an ensemble cast. It is the third (and reportedly final^[1]) in the Soderbergh series following the 2004 sequel Ocean's Twelve and the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven, which itself was a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film Ocean's Eleven. All of the cast members reprised their roles from the previous installments except for Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin joined the cast as their new targets.

This film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA. The film was released on June 8, 2007,^[2] although it was released in several countries in the Middle East on June 6.^[3] Filming began in July 2006 in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, based on a script by Brian Koppelman and David Levien.^[4]

Contents 1 Plot Synopsis 2 Cast 2.1 Ocean and the Thirteen 2.2 Others 3 Cons described 4 Trivia 5 Reaction 5.1 Box office performance 5.2 Critical reception 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Plot Synopsis

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Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) and Las Vegas' most hated businessman, Willy Bank (Al Pacino) are building a new hotel in Vegas. After having secured crucial deals for Bank, Reuben is strongarmed into signing over his share to him. Bank leaves him with just a $10,000 poker chip and Reuben notices that Bank has changed the name from "The Midas" to his own name "The Bank". Reuben suffers a heart attack from the stress related to his financial loss. The remainder of Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean (George Clooney), Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle), Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck), Turk Malloy (Scott Caan), "The Amazing" Yen (Shaobo Qin), Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner) and Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison) (Tess and Isabel were left out by having Danny and Rusty saying it was not their fight) gather around his bed and are told that Reuben could survive, if he had something to live for. They decide to utterly ruin Bank in two ways.

First, the team decides to deny Bank's new hotel the prestigious Five Diamond Award, the highest distinction granted to a hotel (all of his other hotels have already received this award). Saul poses as the Five Diamond reviewer, while the team engineers a series of mishaps for the real reviewer (while planning to "Reward" him later), who is supposed to be anonymous: a filthy room, food poisoning at one of the hotel's restaurants and finally early eviction by rude, brutish security guards (Virgil and Turk in disguise).

Second, they will rig the casino so that all the players win huge amounts of money on the opening night, so that Bank loses ownership of the hotel. Virgil and Turk rig the casino dice at the source, a Mexican factory, so that the team can flip and stop them at the table using devices disguised as cigarette lighters. Bank is tricked into buying a rigged domino table run by Frank, posing as a domino dealer. A slot machine is rigged to pay out a huge progressive once Rusty activates it and lets another player take over. Livingston and a twelfth man, Roman Nagel (Eddie Izzard) rig card machines.

To ensure that all games played at the casino are fair and not tampered with, Bank has installed a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence security system known as The Greco. The computer reads biofeedback data from players in real time, enabling it to determine whether a win was rigged or legitimate. Nagel informs Ocean and Rusty that The Greco is housed in an impregnable room, and that only something like a natural disaster or a magnetron could cause it to shut down. Ocean and Rusty decide to rent a tunneling machine that would simulate a localized earthquake hitting the hotel, which would effectively shut down The Greco for three minutes and 20 seconds before it would reboot. To ensure that all the players will leave the casino with their winnings instead of gambling until they run out, the team plan to simulate an earthquake again to scare everyone into cashing out and leaving. However, the drill, which had been used to dig the Channel Tunnel from the British side, breaks down. To purchase the only available replacement, the drill that had been used from the French side, the twelve make a deal with their old enemy, Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). Benedict will put up the money only if the team also steals Bank's four prized diamond necklaces. When Bank wins a Five Diamond Award he purchases a real diamond necklace as a trophy, keeping them in a glass case in his penthouse. The team had considered stealing the diamonds earlier, but had decided it would be near impossible. With no other options, Ocean, Rusty and Linus reluctantly agree.

Yen the acrobat is introduced as Mr. Weng, a high-roller and rich businessman, and Linus (Matt Damon), disguised with a distinctive nose, as his business manager. Yen infiltrates the elevator shafts and air conditioning ducts, but discovers that accessing the diamonds from the floor or ceiling will be borderline impossible. Instead, Linus uses pheromones to seduce Bank's hotel manager, Abigail, who leads him to the diamond room for more privacy.

Livingston is caught "rigging" the card machines by the FBI; an agent (Bob Einstein) tells Bank that replacement machines will be sent over by the manufacturer; these, too, have been rigged. From Livingston's fingerprints, the casino obtains a list of known associates: Ocean's Eleven. Basher (Don Cheadle), dressed up as the stunt man for the hotel's opening show, distracts Bank from seeing while Virgil and Turk modify the downloaded names and faces so that the team's cover is preserved.

Upstairs, the FBI agent abruptly interrupts Linus and Abigail and arrests Linus. As Linus is led away, the agent is revealed to be his successful criminal father Bobby Caldwell, who is also in on the scheme. When the two reach the rooftop helipad to leave, Francois Toulour (Vincent Cassel), alias "the Night Fox", the antagonist from Ocean's Twelve, reveals himself, having followed the whole crew from the start in partnership with Benedict. At gunpoint, Linus hands Toulour the stolen diamonds, later learning that the gun had no bullets as Toulour handed Linus the gun before running of. Toulour escapes, but the diamonds are fakes; instead, the team uses explosives to steal the entire impregnable case by helicopter.

Meanwhile, the team calls Bank's brand new cell phone, which, unbeknownst to him, contains a magnetron. This shuts down The Greco and it takes 3 minutes and 20 seconds to reboot. The rigged games are all activated. Team members in the casino, including Danny, Rusty, Saul, Yen, Frank and a recovered Reuben, all make sure that everyone who plays at the casino wins, so the casino pays out millions. Another earthquake is simulated, prompting everyone in the casino to cash in their chips and evacuate, taking all their "winnings" with them.

Danny confronts Bank, telling him he broke the rules and needed to learn from what he's done; he also states that Bank obviously isn't going to go to the police and that any threats Bank makes would be empty, because "I know all the guys that you'd hire to come after me... they like me better than you." Reuben is given the deed to 4.6 acres of land on the Las Vegas Strip. Danny then meets Benedict at his office and confronts him about hiring Toulour and informs him that he took Benedict's share and donated it to charity in his name. Finally, Danny, Rusty and Linus meet at McCarran airport where Rusty gives up his seat on one last rigged slot machine to the beleaguered hotel reviewer, who wins $11 million.

[edit] Cast

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• George Clooney as Danny Ocean
• Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan
• Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell
• Andy Garcia as Terry Benedict
• Don Cheadle as Basher Tarr
• Bernie Mac as Frank Catton
• Casey Affleck as Virgil Malloy
• Scott Caan as Turk Malloy
• Shaobo Qin as "The Amazing" Yen
• Carl Reiner as Saul Bloom
• Eddie Jemison as Livingston Dell
• Elliott Gould as Reuben Tishkoff
• Eddie Izzard as Roman Nagel

[edit] Others

• Al Pacino as Willy Bank
• Vincent Cassel as François "The Nightfox" Toulour
• Ellen Barkin as Abigail Sponder
• Bob Einstein as Bobby Caldwell
• Olga Sosnovska as Debbie
• David Paymer as the V.U.P
• Julian Sands as Greco Montgomery
• Angel Oquendo as Guard Ortega

[edit] Cons described

Like in the previous movies there are several references to cons or other practices using just a person's name with no description of what it means. Here are the explanations for some of them:
Billy Martin - When they give Bank a second chance to do the right thing it's referred to as a Billy Martin. Billy Martin was a famous second baseman and manager. Martin was fired (or quit) as the manager of the New York Yankees in 1978. He was rehired as manager in 1980, given a second chance.
Irwin Allen - This con involves the mark being manipulated using the threat of a natural disaster. Irwin Allen was a television and film producer known for his work on disaster movies. His nickname was "The Master of Disaster."
Susan B. Anthony - This is not exactly a con (at least not directly). When the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was widely used, people would often mistakenly drop it into a slot rather than a quarter (due to their similarity in size and appearance). Therefore the "Susan B. Anthony" semantically refers to a coin that has more value than what the slot player thinks, but in the context of the movie refers to the trick in which a large payout is rigged for the next player. In the movie it happens twice; each time the characters leave an actual coin (the "Susan B. Anthony") at a slot machine that has been rigged to give the maximum jackpot to the next player. The coin, of course, has nothing to do with the mechanics of the trick (it is an ordinary coin), but simply acts as a catalyst.
The Brody - A false nose worn by Matt Damon's character is referred to as the Brody. This is a reference to actor Adrien Brody known for having very striking looks, including a unique nose.
Gilroy - In the movie a Gilroy is a very powerful "accelerator," a chemical which gives off a smell that causes a woman to become very aroused. As it is used on Matt Damon's character the name Gilroy may be a reference to screenwriter Tony Gilroy who wrote the screenplays for all three of Damon's Jason Bourne series of movies as well as for George Clooney's movie Michael Clayton, which Gilroy also directs. This may also refer to the city of Gilroy, CA, which is known for its pungent garlic fields which can be smelled from miles away.
Cartwheel - Refers to a quick distraction to cover up information.

[edit] Trivia

• This is the first movie since The Godfather Part III where Al Pacino and Andy Garcia are teamed up together again.
• The Samsung Golden cellphone presentation to Al Pacino's character is similar to the Havana Conference scene in The Godfather Part II where the President of the telephone company presents the golden telephone to one of the members who showed up to the Havana Conference.
• When the gang is discussing the opening day of The Bank, Saul mentions The Flamingo, a casino mentioned in Ocean's Eleven by Reuben in his "Top 3 most successful casino robberies in Las Vegas History".
• In a conversation with Al Pacino, George Clooney begins "What I want - what's most important to me". The same line said by Al Pacino in The Godfather.
• Elliott Gould's first words to Clooney and Pitt, after recovering from his heart attack are a parody of Marlon Brando's first words to his consigliere Robert Duvall in The Godfather, after his son Sonny was shot.
• Rusty's cell phone ringtone is The Human League song Don't You Want Me.
• The stars of the film (George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon) have all won People magazine's sexiest man alive award.
• When the team rigs the roulette table, the winning numbers are 11, 12, 13 in reference to Ocean's 11, 12, and 13.
• Near the end of the film Rusty (Brad Pitt) tells Danny (George Clooney) to watch his weight in between (referencing the weight George Clooney had to put on for his role in Syriana), and Danny tells Rusty to settle down and have some kids (a direct reference to his relationship to Angelina Jolie and their children).

[edit] Reaction

[edit] Box office performance

The film did well on its first weekend, reaching the top spot at the North American box office. Despite being opened in 250 more theaters than Ocean's Twelve, however, it had a slightly weaker opening weekend than the former, pulling in $36 million, compared to Twelve's $39 million opening weekend.^{[5] [6]} However, the film had much stronger competition than its predecessor, competing with big summer blockbusters, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Shrek the Third (in their third and fourth weeks respectively), the opening Surf's Up and Hostel: Part II, and the surprise box office hit, Knocked Up (in its second weekend). Considering the unusually strong competition, the film had an impressive opening. As of December 302007 Ocean's Thirteen has taken in $117.2 million in the U.S alone. Overseas the film has made $194.2 million pushing its total worldwide gross to $311.4 million.^[7]

[edit] Critical reception

Critical reception to the movie has generally been positive with some critics liking the movie's style while others criticizing it for its over-complexity. Joel Siegel, in what would turn out to be his last review for Good Morning America, raved on the movie, saying that if it had been the first movie, there still would have been a sequel. On the movie Web site Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has received an overall 69% score, while on Yahoo! Movies, it garnered an average B grade. ^[8][9]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• Ocean's Thirteen at the Internet Movie Database
• Ocean's Thirteen at Rotten Tomatoes
• Ocean's Thirteen Roundtable on Time.com (a division of Time Magazine)
• Camp To Belong - the charity highlighted at the end of the film

Preceded by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Box office number-one films of 2007 (USA) June 10, 2007

Succeeded by Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

v • d • e Films by Steven Soderbergh

sex, lies, and videotape (1989) • Kafka (1991) • King of the Hill (1993) • Underneath (1995) • Gray's Anatomy (1996) • Schizopolis (1996) • Out of Sight (1998) • The Limey (1999) • Erin Brockovich (2000) • Traffic (2000) • Ocean's Eleven (2001) • Full Frontal (2002) • Solaris (2002) • Eros (Equilibrium) (2004) • Ocean's Twelve (2004) • Bubble (2006) • The Good German (2006) • Ocean's Thirteen (2007) • Guerrilla (2008)

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