Ocean's Eleven (1960)

I own this movie on DVD.

So kinda funny, a couple months ago I watched the reboot trilogy of Ocean's Eleven lead by George Clooney on Netflix. At the time Netflix was saying they were leaving soon and I figured I needed to watch them before they were taken off that platform. I hadn't seen the first two in ages, and I am pretty sure that was my first time ever watching Ocean's 13.
I said in my reviews of those I wanted to try and track down the original 60s film and watch it at some point. I know it used to be on Netflix a few years ago, as I distinctly remember adding it to my watch list, just never got to it.

Well lo and behold, I was looking through my ever growing collection of DVDs and I found I already had the Walmart box of all 4 movies together! I had bought it a while back and then completely forgot about it. Lol. So I didn't need to worry about catching them on Netflix before they were gone... I had them on DVD and it came with this 1960s original.
Well might as well complete the experience!

So this original Ocean's Eleven is a lot slower and fairly different from the George Clooney led remake. And really... the remake is a lot better. Yeah this movie has its merit and was probably good for it's time, but I found it a bit slow and took forever to get to things. I also didn't think the plan was all that impressive by the gang like the elaborate plot the remake did. And of course it has a lot of that hammy hokey older film acting.

That said, there's one thing that makes this movie shine for me and why I'm giving it a 4 star rating instead of 3. And that would be the ending.
I honestly did not see that ending coming with what happens to the money at the funeral and it legit got a huge laugh out of me. Nobody wins! The remake did go a very different direction with that and had a more happy ending, but this old one I legit love how it ends also. And caught me completely off guard.
That alone saved the movie for me and I put it up at 4 stars for I really like it. Still not quite a 5 star film like the remake, but it's good. I was going to rank it along with Ocean's 13 as being meh and kinda boring till that ending happened. This is very much the opposite of what I said happened in my Bangkok Dangerous review where the ending ruined the entire rest of the film. With this Ocean's Eleven the ending saved the whole movie for me.
Well done!

Mistake Status: I'll probably do the Ocean's movies at some point, but no idea when.

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