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Great reasons to watch this,unlike a few reviews above
It's not often that a remake is better than an original..in this case, it is. There is so much more flair and planning that goes into this than in the original 1960 classic.

But going back to the nut who reviewed this (eleven reasons not to like this).. in case you werent watching the same movie as me, the car freshner of the SWAT car and the one focused on earlier are THE SAME! it isnt a actually a SWAT car, my friend..

The planning that goes into this heist is unbelievable (if you want believable, watch National Geographic) and when things like that work out you cannot help smiling.

This is a top notch movie, with a top notch cast, and flowing, clever dialogue and catchiness to the characters that you'll soon be wanting to start your own band of casino thieves at the end of the film!!

It's a prime example of escapism (who would,in reality, even dream of robbing 3 Vegas casino's in one night!) and great fun for anybody who doesnt take themselves too seriously! It's no epic, but is sure worth a watch (or ELEVEN!)

can't compete
I have seen several remakes of older films done & in my book you can never make a remake as good as the orignal. Why don't film makers realize "You Can not replace old movies, no matter who stars in it"!.

Eleven things why this movie was bad...
1. The movie was filled with a superb, stellar cast: Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Brad Pitt.. imagine the movie with some unknowns or less know actors. Not as good is it?

2. Heist movies are getting very boring. The movies with clever, well-planned schemes to make major heists have been done, and done, and done.. but it takes a great writer to make the story great. Take "The Italian Job" for example, an awesome movie about a major heist, where they use the same tatics to steal the money again.. hesit movie yes, but idea of heist was original. Come on, a little Chinese guy with no air for 30 minutes snuck into a high-security vault?

3. Character developments were not even apparent.. all you know is that Danny Ocean (Clooney) wants his ex-wife, Tess (Roberts), back, Rusty (Pitt) is Ocean's old friend, and most of the other character's have been part of a previous heist group. Where the heck is Damon's character from? He is someone's son, who's son again? There is little character development, if any.

4. The movie was unpleasant to watch, there were so many.. 'why is this going on?' scenes. Many parts of the movie seemed unnecessary to have at all.

5. The director tried too hard, which was very apparent. In one scene I noticed it zoomed in on a car freshner. The green pine-tree freshner. Everytime an object is focused in on, usually there is some relevance to it. So later in the movie it zooms on the same freshner in the S.W.A.T. truck. What was that all about?

6. The weird angles and "artistic" camera work were rahter annoying.. another attempt by the director to make the movie more original, or interesting to watch.

7. The scene after the heist when everyone is standing there watching the water fountain, and one by one they leave silently.. what is that? Another act by the director..

8. There is no way that they could have timed the exact movements of Garcia's character, sure it said that he did everything on the clock by schedule, but a heist is something you cannot plan for. It was all too easy.. and timed. Which made it all the more un-believable.

9. If the group was that prepared and went over everything as to even create a mock vault, which was to distract the security but also for practice purposes, how would they not have fresh batteries in the remote for the bomb? And how did that Chinese guy even get his hand stuck? One minute he's planting devices in the wall, next minute he's stuck. He could have just taken off the bandage as well..

10. How in the world did Bernie Mac's character get complete access to the blueprint of the vault and security system? A blackjack dealer getting full access? Garcia's character was also noted to be very exact and all-knowing of everyone and everything in the casino. So how would Bernie Mac, a supposed ex-convict, become a dealer in his own casino?

11. What was the ending about? It said '3 to 6 months later', when Clooney said the exact same thing for what time he would get out of jail. Garcia's men from the casino are following them.. probably a lead into Ocean's Twelve.

I heard a great deal of good things about this movie, probably made me more critical to everything about the movie. Though I did not enjoy some of the movie, the heist scene was a little clever with the whole switching of the money .. everything else just was there. The star-studded cast was what helped the movie most, it seemed the characters just being there was enough to help the movie gravitate along. The directing of the movie was horrible.. camerawork was random and all over the place, and the attempts to put 'creative' work into the movie by the director killed it furthur.

2 stars for pulling together a famous cast, humurous heist scene, and for being one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

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