Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I guess I should confess at the beginning that I'm an avid Dean Martin fan. But even having said that, this is hardly my favorite Dean Martin film. Oh yes, it's a clever little movie, but to me, the problem with the film is one major flaw -- we're supposed to root for thieves. There are no good guys in this film. They're all crooks. They blow the power going into Las Vegas, depriving everyday people of electricity, some in hospitals, some on oxygen machines, whatever. Yet, again, we are expected to root for them. Sorry, but for me, that's a bit of a problem. If there is one character that you can have a little empathy for, it's Richard Conte's character.Of course, the film also seems very dated today. Not because it's the Rat Pack...they seem almost timeless. But this is the Las Vegas of yesteryear.. Which is okay. It's just dated.And I also dislike the premise of this film -- we're swingers...aren't we just the coolest thing ever? Now I know you're thinking that hey, that guy just doesn't like the Rat Pack. Actually, that's not true. "sergeants 3" is pretty decent. "4 For Texas" is okay. I very much like "Robin & The Seven Hoods".Another problem is that for much of the film, it drags., particularly in the middle of the film.And my final complaint is that much of the film moves kind of slow with too much talk and little action.As to the cast, pretty good. Frank Sinatra is fine here as Danny Ocean, but this is about as far away from his best performances as can be; and I do think that Sinatra was a darned good actor. Dean Martin plays Dean Martin, which is pleasant enough. Sammy Davis, Jr. certainly does better here than he did in "Robin & The Seven Hoods" (where he was little more than a supporting actor); but of course, the Black guy drives the garbage trucks and picks up the stash at the dump). Peter Lawford was quite good as the spoiled rich boy. Richard Conte has the more serious role of a loser who is preparing to die and wants to leave his little boy enough money to go to college. Joey Bishop is interesting in that he plays against character -- a very self-assured cog in the machine. Angie Dickinson is here as the somewhat love interest for Frank Sinatra; not a very impressive role, but she does fine. I always enjoy seeing Cesar Romero. Akim Tamiroff is somewhat interesting as the financial backer of the effort.So, what's interesting about the film? Well, Dino singing the once banned "Ain't That A Kick In The Head". A funny cameo by Red Skelton trying to gamble. And an even funnier cameo of a drunk Shirley MacLaine flirting with Dino. It's also interesting to see a cameo by George Raft.It's a pretty average film that is less than its reputation. But it's worth watching...once...or more if you're a fan of any members of the Rat Pack.Simply because it's a Dean Martin film I recently purchased the Blu-Ray version. It's a very nice transfer.

I don't blame Steven Soderburgh and company one bit for remaking the story of this crime bunch. The idea is great: rob three Vegas casinos by killing the power of the whole city for a few minutes. However, this original didn't deliver much on the idea outside of bringing together what was apparently the most star-studded cast of the decade. The problem with that is that most of the eleven look too similar to differentiate. At least eight of them wear the same suits and have basically the same hair styles. The only people I could tell apart were Danny Ocean, Josh, the guy who dresses like a cowboy, and sometimes Jimmy Foster. But, I guess that's conformist fifties values for you. The remake in 2001 learned from this by making all of the members of their eleven distinctly different and giving them each a memorable introduction. The story is similar to most crime movies with assembling the team and then getting through the heist, but everything moved pretty slowly. The scenes are long and there isn't that much that happens in most of them. Besides that, there are a some tangent story lines that get a little too much attention. The most prominent of these is Jimmy Foster's relationship with his mother and step-father, followed by Danny's strained relationship with his ex-wife Beatrice. All three of these minor characters got more exposition and attention than many of the eleven, which is kind of a problem considering the size of their roles in the overall plot. We don't actually meet most of the gang until the scene when they all gather around the pool table. This is one of the better scenes in the movie. Then there is the entire third act after the heist that deals with the aftermath of one of the team member's deaths and Jimmy Foster's fifth stepfather trying to catch the team for robbing all the casinos. There is a bit of a twist at the end when the remaining ten discover that all of their money has been cremated and they all walk off regretting the cost of their crime.It could have been much better in a technical sense. The acting was nothing special in any sense even if it wasn't overtly bad. The script was poorly paced, as I've stated before, and didn't give the characters much personality, which was too bad because the actors didn't either. It also spent more time showing what happens within the casino during the robbery than it did showing the actual robbery. I probably don't need to state why this is problematic. Any other problems I might have had with it were a result of late-fifties culture and style. I guess I've made it sound like there is nothing good about the execution, which isn't true. There are certainly things that the director and his crew did right, but it's not more than we've come to expect from any movie. It's like what you would get if you made a cake with slightly but noticeably unbalanced ingredients.If you're a fan of any of the 2000's Ocean movies, know that this is not an older version of the reboot in story or style. The same goes for those who liked this and are considering the reboot trilogy. If you like the "Rat Pack", then I guess this is a good pick, because I can't see many other reasons that people might like it. Overall Rating: 6/10.

Dull movie. Really just made to cash in on the fame of the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. If anyone else had made this movie nobody would have watched it.As mentioned, it is all about the Rat Pack. So, more style than substance, and the style hasn't aged well. While a misogynistic, cheesy-dialogue-cracking, smooth-operator swagger might have worked in the 1960s, it just seems lame now.Despite all the attempts at smoothness, there are heaps of faults in the plot and performances. Editing too. Eg When Dean Martin meets Angie Dickinson for the first time in the movie, he says "Good day, Mrs Oceans", when her surname is Ocean. Would have been nice if Dean Martin had bothered to read the script and the director had bothered to do another take...So, very rough around the edges, as if Sinatra and co made the movie in a rush and didn't bother too much about the finer details.Performances are pretty weak. In fact, the only good ones are from non- Rat Packers, Angie Dickinson especially.The 2001 remake was much better.

There is something about heist pictures. Nearly all of them are very good and exciting and of all the genres, it's one of the most consistently good. Think about it--with films like "Rififi", "Grand Slam", "The Italian Job", "The Killing" and "Topkapi" it's easy to find a great heist film. Well, despite my trepidation, it turns out that "Ocean's Eleven" is also another dandy heist film. I say trepidation because I always assumed it was just a vanity project--an excuse for Sinatra and his friends to get together and make a film. Well, while this is true, the film also was quite nice--with a dandy script and nice acting all around.The film's title comes from Frank Sinatra's character's name--Danny Ocean. Danny is organizing a bunch of his old war buddies to commit the ultimate robbery--to simultaneously hit the five big casinos in Vegas. The planning is meticulous, the heist comes off without a hitch--but you KNOW with a film like this SOMETHING will go wrong, and by the end, that's exactly what happens. See it for yourself and you'll know what I mean.I really liked the movie. Although this WAS a bunch of friends getting together to make a film, they obviously cared to make a good one. The great twist ending sure helped but it also was nice that they gathered such an amazing ensemble cast. Well worth seeing--particularly so you can hear Sammy Davis deliver the line: "I knew this color would come in handy one day". Watch the film--you'll understand why it's so funny.