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Ocean's Eleven (1960) goes to show that just because a film is old doesn't make it a classic.
With a cast that includes the Rat Pack...Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop...along with other accomplished actors like Cesar Romero, Richard Conte and Angie Dickson....this has to be one heck of a great movie right? Wrong!
I've seen this before but couldn't remember a thing about the movie, and after watching it again last night I know why...There's nothing here to remember! The scenes are misplaced and feel incomplete. Nothing in the film makes much sense nor does it even try to be anything other than an excuse for the Rat Pack to make a film.
The first entire hour which dragged, is about gathering the 11 members for the casino heist. The movie doesn't even try to be dramatic or action packed. It's not comic or witty either and there's no romance, no fun.
The film is about the planning and execution of a daring robbery of 5 casinos simultaneously and the aftermath after the job is done. That should have made for a great film like the similar Stanley Kubrick film The Killing (1956). But here we see next to nothing of the robbery plans or of the robbery itself, so the film doesn't work.
This was a dull movie. Only three brief scenes where rewarding.
1 when Deano sings, Ain't That a Kick in the Head.
2 when Sammy sings, Eee-O-11.
3 the scene with a drunken Shirley MacLaine.
A very young Angie Dickson plays Frank's estranged wife. But with so many characters, she, like everyone else gets little screen time and so the film never gets deep or even fun.
Ocean's Eleven (1960) goes to show that just because a film is old doesn't make it a classic.
With a cast that includes the Rat Pack...Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop...along with other accomplished actors like Cesar Romero, Richard Conte and Angie Dickson....this has to be one heck of a great movie right? Wrong!
I've seen this before but couldn't remember a thing about the movie, and after watching it again last night I know why...There's nothing here to remember! The scenes are misplaced and feel incomplete. Nothing in the film makes much sense nor does it even try to be anything other than an excuse for the Rat Pack to make a film.
The first entire hour which dragged, is about gathering the 11 members for the casino heist. The movie doesn't even try to be dramatic or action packed. It's not comic or witty either and there's no romance, no fun.
The film is about the planning and execution of a daring robbery of 5 casinos simultaneously and the aftermath after the job is done. That should have made for a great film like the similar Stanley Kubrick film The Killing (1956). But here we see next to nothing of the robbery plans or of the robbery itself, so the film doesn't work.
This was a dull movie. Only three brief scenes where rewarding.
1 when Deano sings, Ain't That a Kick in the Head.
2 when Sammy sings, Eee-O-11.
3 the scene with a drunken Shirley MacLaine.
A very young Angie Dickson plays Frank's estranged wife. But with so many characters, she, like everyone else gets little screen time and so the film never gets deep or even fun.