The Screen Junkie

"Revenge is a Funny thing"

You bet. Sometimes when a person turns cruella de-ville and ruins every second of your happiness in exchange of his/her selfishness.. Well, you better watch out.. because Karma's a bitch.

It wouldn't hurt seeing the third installment of Steven Soderbergh even though the second sequel sucked. Besides, Ocean's 11 became successful because of its highly planned strategy on stealing Terry Benedict's (Andy Garcia) money on his Belagio.

This time the story starts with Reuben (Elliot Gould), who was tricked by Willie Bank (Al Pacino) by betraying him lose almost every property he has, leaving him only $10k. (Not in cash form but a poker chip of his upcoming casino "The Bank"). Reuben was threatened, forced and later on, had a heart attack in which he almost died. Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the rest of the gang swore revenge on getting his money back, double with interest. As usual, these confidential men planned carefully and affiliated with influential men who also wished to share revenge against W. Bank.

The first part was tedious because of the detailed explanation 'What if's', their Entrance and Exit strategy and how they're going to pull it off against the Bank's highly advanced security system. It is 10x sophisticated and smarter than the previous vaults because it has a so-called brain. Meaning to say, the movie is really projecting how impossible it is to break through.

Second part started entertaining the audience. How they worked with "this very interesting guy".. I won't tell who. ;) How they foresaw those who tried to capture them.. and showed the audience that for the love of entertainment, anything is possible.

The ending was nice... To tell you the truth, I was really entertained. I could actually compare this to Ocean's 11 and watch all over again.

4 stars. :)

posted by the only juz @ 6/09/2007 01:24:00 AM