I’ve come to really enjoy the Ocean’s movies, since they play on two powerful elements. First, they carefully control how much information the audience has. We get clues, but rarely enough to piece together much of their plan. Second, the scenes are short and punchy. The humor is slathered on.
This time, I noticed how much time was devoted to character development. Matt Damon’s Linus gets more time to become himself. The gag of George Clooney sitting around watching Oprah by himself is a nice joke, but it develops him enough. There’s a slightly more playful edge to this one, as opposed to the first one. The second feels like a departure, even though I like it.
One other thing… I finally realized that I actually never understood the ending of this movie until this time through. I didn’t realize that the guy who shows up near the end was the opposition from the second movie. Wow, I feel dumb.
No comments:
Post a Comment