Ocean's Thirteen
At a glance...
- Directed by Steven Soderbergh
- Released in 2007
- Runtime 122 minutes
- Watched at home
- Final feelings: I had fun!
This was truly an amazingly well-constructed send-off for the series. It all comes back to labor. It all comes back to honor. It all comes back to shaking Frank Sinatra's hand. Danny Ocean ascends beyond the mortal realm of set-ups and con-men and becomes a fully-realized demigod of poetic justice towards cowards who hide behind money, riot shields, and artificial intelligence. And it's still funny and still got the juice for those fast back-and-forth moments where these fake terms-of-art are just tossed around without a care in the world, though it's not always as tight and as clean as in the first film.
It's funny how things go in circles. The super-phone being a gaudy gold-plated nokia-style cell phone instead of an iPhone is hilariously dated, but the casino staff being boxed in as a consequence on their over-reliance on an "AI" system feels right at home with today's big security outages that cause hundreds of thousands of people to be stuck in airports for multiple days. From now on, I'll just imagine it's the patron saints of inconvenient technical and natural disasters that are the reason for my growing queue of security-related work items at my job. Will definitely be coming back to this one in the future, it's just too much fun not to.