Review – Ocean’s Eleven

This remake of an old Rat Pack caper movie works as an ensemble star vehicle but not much more. The film-makers strive to work a clever tale about a group of pseudo-cool guys plotting to rob a casino vault. But the plot’s too loose and full of holes to be of much interest as a traditional caper flick. There’s also a highly ineffective romance between lead hoodlum George Clooney and Julia Roberts as his ex-wife. So I guess if you’re blown away by the likes of Matt Damon and Brad Pitt (or if you like seeing so much male bonding that it really starts to come across as dysfunctionally gay), you’re in the right place. Otherwise you’re stuck in the oh-so-uninteresting world of expensive Las Vegas casinos without any particular reason to be there. See if desperate