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Ocean's Thirteen

[u]Ocean's Thirteen is a 2007 film directed by Stephen Soderbergh and starring an ensemble cast. It is the third in the Soderbergh series following the 2004 sequel Ocean's Twelve and the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven, which itself was a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film Ocean's Eleven. The latter was highly influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur (1955).

The film was released on June 8, 2007,although it was released in several countries in the Middle East on June 6.

Filming began in July 2006 in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, based on a script by Brian Koppelman and David Levien.Since its world premiere on May 24, 2007 at the Cannes Film Festival, the film has been well received.[/u]
Ocean’s Thirteen follows the movies Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve. It involves the team seeking revenge for their friend against the hotel tycoon Willy Bank.

The Ocean crew gather around a hospital bed where Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) lies after suffering a heart attack. A flashback to four weeks earlier is inserted, showing Reuben meeting with Willy Bank (Al Pacino) in an under-construction hotel. After Reuben secures crucial deals for Bank, Reuben is intimidated into giving up his part of the investment. The shock causes Reuben's heart attack.

The gang swears to take revenge on Bank by utterly ruining his hotel, The Bank, on grand opening night. They aim to rig the various games at the casino so the players will win instead of the house, and destroy any chance of Bank winning the prestigious Five Diamond Award, the highest distinction granted for a casino-hotel. Bank's other hotels have won this award, and he has purchased valuable diamond necklaces to commemorate the successes. He has already optimistically purchased a necklace for his new hotel as well.

The main problem they face now is the artificial intelligence security system, Greco, for which they hire Roman Nagel (Eddie Izzard) to lend his technical expertise. The only way to bypass it is by a huge natural disaster or a magnetron. If the system senses any trouble, it will automatically lock down, and rebooting would take three minutes. They buy a large tunnel boring machine, so it will induce an artificial earthquake underneath the hotel. This is supposed to be one of the drills that dug the Chunnel.

Rusty (Brad Pitt) and Danny (George Clooney) set about polluting a hotel room with biochemicals. In the lobby, a disguised Saul (Carl Reiner) is in line to check in. He 'accidentally' drops a Five Diamond Award folder, therefore Bank's aid, Abigail (Ellen Barkin) immediately rushes to assist Saul. In line behind them, the VUP or the Very Unimportant Person (David Paymer), is rudely jolted and then given the chemical-treated room by a bribed clerk. For the rest of his stay, he is treated horribly through the efforts of the team.

Virgil Malloy is sent to an Mexican factory to make the rigged dice. Upset by the terrible working conditions at the factory, he leads the workers on strike for better pay. His brother, Turk Malloy, is sent by the team to get the factory running again, but instead joins the strike. The team later hears that the workers are requesting $36,000. They consider paying that for each of them, but it turns out that this is the total amount, which would give them a 5% pay increase, which is $3.50 a week. They pay the amount and the factory finally re-opens.

Disaster strikes when the drill intended to simulate the earthquake breaks down. As the replacement drill is way out of budget, they have no choice but to make a deal with Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) for funding. Benedict requests that they double his investment and that they steal the diamond necklaces that Bank had purchased for his Five Diamond wins. The diamonds are housed in a glass case in the penthouse, worth $250 million collectively.

Rusty, pretending as a seismologist, visits Bank. and warns him about an earthquake. He gives him a seismograph to keep in his office, so that he can start evacuation in case of an earthquake. The seismograph has a hidden camera which allows them to see Bank right in his own office.

Yen is introduced as Mr. Wang, a high-roller and rich businessman and Linus "The Nose" as his bodyguard. Yen the acrobat infiltrates the elevator shafts and air conditioning ducts and discovers that accessing the diamonds from the floor or ceiling will be borderline impossible. The new plan to access the diamonds is for the disguised Linus to seduce Abigail, who has access to the room with the diamonds. When opening night arrives, Linus uses pheromones to seduce her, leading him to the diamond room. Inside, he conspicuously places explosives around the base of the column containing the jewels.

Downstairs, the FBI enters and arrests Livingston, as he has been caught rigging machines. An agent (Bob Einstein) tells Bank that a new set of machines will be coming in shortly. Roman then brings in the rigged machines, putting them in place of the genuine machines which Bank thought were rigged. Prints on the machine are matched with Livingston’s, and the FBI comes up with a list of known associates - Ocean's Eleven. The list, with pictures, is downloaded to the computer in Bank's office. Basher, dressed up as the stunt man for the hotel's opening show that evening, distracts Bank from the computer while Virgil and Turk modify the team’s names and faces so that the team's cover will be preserved.

The infiltrated dice which came from Turk and Virgil's Mexican factory are distributed throughout the the casino. When the team activates their equipment, disguised as Zippo lighters, the dice will flip and stop, manipulating the outcomes of games.

With the drill turned on, a mock earthquake begins and Bank rushes to the Greco system. His tampered mobile phone acts as a magnetron, shutting down Greco for three minutes. Bank is trapped in the security office and the rigged games can now be played. Team members in the casino, including Danny, Rusty, Saul, Yen, Frank (Bernie Mac) as a dealer, and a recovered Reuben, all make sure that everyone who plays at the casino wins, so the casino pays out millions. When the system reactivates, the earthquake is simulated again, prompting everyone in the casino to cash in their chips and evacuate, taking away all the money with them.

Upstairs, the FBI agent disrupts Linus and Abigail together, revealing Linus was using her to steal the diamonds and replacing it with replicas. Linus is then taken away by the FBI agent, who is actually Linus's successful criminal father. When they reach the helipad to leave, Francois Toulour, a.k.a "the Nightfox", (the antagonist from Ocean’s Twelve) reveals himself, after following the whole crew from the start pointing a gun with no clip at Linus and demands for the diamonds. Linus hands over the diamonds and Francois sky-dives off the building roof.

Basher lands the helicopter, and the team detonates the explosives, freeing the diamond case from the floor. The helicopter takes off, carrying the Real case of diamonds under it, for Linus never switched the diamonds, as he would be unable to do so. Danny confronts Bank, telling him he broke the rules and to learn from what he's done. As the Helicopter Flies off, an aghast Bank watches below as the fireworks he organized for the stroke of midnight, and his diamonds go off. As Francois also witnesses this, he discovers his set of diamonds are fake and throws them out.

The team celebrates as the fireworks Bank organized to appear at midnight go off, and Reuben is given the deed to the 4.6 acres of land where the hotel sits. Danny pays a final visit to Benedict, chiding him for his trickery, telling him they were aware of Toulour's presence and informing him that the 72 million dollars promised to Benedict have been donated in Benedict's name to a children's charity. Benedict later appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show to be congratulated for his generosity.

Danny, Rusty and Linus meet in an airport and watch this interview before going their separate ways. Before leaving the airport, Rusty sits down to play a game of slots to which he knows the winning combination. Rusty gives the miserable reviewer from the Five Diamonds his place at the machine and a coin. Rusty smiles as he walks away, hearing the man scream that he had won the $11 million jackpot as everyone crowds around him and cheers.

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[[i] Last edited by  Selina at 6-16-2007 21:31 [/i]]

It takes me quite a long time to finish reading the the detailed introduction..........;P

Gotta check this out. lol