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Rating:  - I gotta disagree
...to the top reviewers who gave this a 3-star rating. My take is this: If you enjoyed 11, and pretty much hated 12, you'll find 13 to be a perfect match of the style of 12 and the substance of 11.
The thing I liked the most in Oceans 13 was the "cool factor". While it is stylish, as 12 was (almost to a motion-sickness fault), it also features a lot of dialogue back and forth between the characters that clearly are having a great time being a part of this plot. The interaction and chemistry (not to mention inside jokes pertaining to their real-life celebrity personalities) is smooth and seamless, and the movie flows better than 11.
Back again is the impossible theft scenario that unravels as the movie unfolds. Granted, on second viewings the surprise is gone, but I found myself enjoying the scenery even more on additional viewings, and there are some genuinely funny moments that I missed the first time.
I can't speak for everyone, but I loved it.
Rating:  - substandard
Don't waste your money on the HD version of Ocean's 13. It looks like some of the scenes were shot with a diffusion filter. I don't care to have my HD system look fuzzy! It was viewed on a 47" Toshiba LCD cine pro3 & Toshiba HD DVD player. High definition-this one is not.
Rating:  - Ocean's 13 review
[written: 29-7-07]
Ocean's Thirteen was certainly better than Ocean's Twelve which was mindnumbingly boring, nothing interesting, dull as a potato.
Ocean's Thirteen, however, is probably the best in the whole series. See you can watch Ocean's Eleven once or twice, but by the third time everything becomes too familar and drawn out. I used to own that video but got rid of it because it just wasn't interesting enough anymore.
Ocean's Thirteen starts off slow and trechurous, you wonder whether it will be just as bad as Ocean's Twelve. However, the speed picks up, the plan begins, there's daring flips and turns as a man tries to get in between two fast moving elevators, the casino night opens and everything just slides along into a fun and cleverly crafted movie. How the Ocean's Thirteen team get away with the things they do in this movie is just unrealistic and a letdown though, but everything else is a-okay.
All up, you're looking at a review score of 8/10. A few flaws in the beginning and end, but no movie is ever perfect. (Or I've yet to see one that is...)
Rating:  - 3rd Installment Not So Dazzling
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the 1st two installments of the Ocean's film series, but not this one so much. I felt like there were some good moments in this film, but felt it paled in comparison to both Ocean's 11 & 12.
The overall plot for Ocean's 13 lacked a lot of the appeal, cohesiveness, tightly written plot twists and turns, and so on that made Ocean's 11 & 12 great, engaging movies to watch from start to finish.
Rating: - Ocean Thirteen
Good price, thought the DVD was broken, but it was just a piece of the plastic circular part that holds the DVD in the case.
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