Ocean's Thirteen

I love Soderbergh. He can do wrong, but he does more consistently interesting work in Hollywood than any other working director. What he made of this third installment of a nothing movie is impressive. The saturated colors, verging on Technicolor, really worked. I was expecting to admire the pretty faces (Clooney, Pitt, Damon) but I found myself more enchanted by Pitt against an almost midnight blue sky walking to a private jet. Or Damon expressing his frustration via cell phone while walking on a London street so tinged with blue that his hair almost looked black. And the building with the casino/hotel they target--is that building real? It was amazing. I could have looked at the arial shots all day.

None of that is to say that the action was bad (it was good) or the plot was confusing (for a caper film, it was straightforward). My first reaction: it was sufficiently entertaining. For a pleasant escape, it hit the spot.