Region:
Video: Enhanced Widescreen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audio: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Language: English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, ko
Weight factor: 1 item(s)

Plot Synopsis

Cinema icon Al Pacino joins a powerhouse cast headed by of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and series newcomer Ellen Barkin for this, the third installment of director Steven Soderbergh's popular series of glitzy crime comedies. The only hotelier in Las Vegas who can claim that each and every one of his establishments has earned the Royal Review Board's Five Diamond Award, Willy Bank (Pacino) has made more than his share of enemies during his impressive ascent. While most of Bank's adversaries amount to little more than the occasional nuisance, however, this powerful player is about to find out that picking your enemies in Las Vegas can be a true gamble. In betraying Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), Bank has finally crossed the one man who could bring his entire empire crumbling to the ground -- Danny Ocean (Clooney). Now Reuben is in critical condition, and Ocean is determined to strike back at the man who nearly murdered his mentor. Bank may have taken down one of the original Ocean's Eleven, but his efforts only managed to unite the remaining ten closer than ever before. As the opening of Bank's newest casino draws near, Danny and the crew set into motion a bold plan to humiliate the cocksure casino owner and forever tarnish his spotless reputation. It won't be easy, but if Ocean and his team can get their elaborate plan together in time for the opening of The Bank, they just might be able to deliver some serious Las Vegas justice. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Editorial Reviews:

Ocean's Thirteen reeks of backpedaling. In Ocean's Twelve, director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter George Nolfi took the action out of Vegas, trying for something outside the box and self-referential -- Julia Roberts playing a character who gets mistaken for the actual Julia Roberts? The response from critics and audiences was tepid, so here, Soderbergh reins things back in with a formula very similar to his original Ocean's Eleven. Fortunately, the formula works. In fact, the biggest complaint viewers may have is that they're sitting through the same movie again. Repetition of prior success is a fundamental (if regrettable) ingredient in the sequel business, but at least Ocean's Thirteen has the style to do it without making a viewer feel manipulated. What drew audiences to the original was the collection of fashionable and shiny stars having a rollicking good time, and that only expands outward here, with ever more name actors eager to join in the biggest party of Hollywood cool kids since...well, since Ocean's Twelve. The frenetic script (by franchise newcomers Brian Koppelman and David Levien) finds enough to do for most of the myriad characters, who are brought back together this time for vengeance -- to give casino mogul Willy Bank (Al Pacino, also making his Ocean's debut) a taste of his own medicine after he screws over avuncular Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), leading indirectly to Tishkoff's brink-of-death hospitalization. The heist plans rely on Rube Goldberg logic as much as ever, the wardrobes are just as smart, and the one-liners are just as withering. The overall package makes sure that Thirteen is not the unlucky number for this series that Twelve was. That quiet whimpering you hear in the corner, between the roulette wheel and that bored cocktail waitress? It's just the death of Soderbergh's will to experiment. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide