Movie Review
'Ocean's 8': this gender-switching heist remake is a crime in itself
'Ocean's 8' disappoints despite its all-star cast
It's been 17 years since director Steven Soderbergh (during his "remake the films that made me" period) paid homage to the 1960 Frank Sinatra and the "Rat Pack" heist film Ocean's 11 by updating it and bringing together the cream of early 21st-century male movie stars.
Ocean's Eleven was a resounding success — fast-paced, witty, stylish and giving a wink to Hollywood's past while firmly satisfying the audience demands of its future.
Problem was, like so many things Hollywood of the 21st century, the Ocean's team just didn't know when to quit. And so we had to endure the increasingly slavish and sluggishly less adept outings of the gang for two more films in which the main motivation of everyone involved, like their loveable criminals, seemed to be nothing much more than to make an easy buck...
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