All 5 Ocean's Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
If you include the original 1960 movie, the Ocean's Eleven franchise spans 5 movies and more decades, but which of the iconic heist films is the best of them all? Many audiences will be most familiar with the Ocean's Eleven movies that came with Steven Soderbergh's 2001 remake of the original 1960 movie, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts. The film became a beloved blockbuster and has since spawned two sequels directed by Soderberg as well as an all-female led spinoff directed by Gary Ross, 2018's Ocean's 8.
The first four films in the Ocean's Eleven franchise revolve around a charming and skilled their, Danny Ocean. In the 1960 movie Danny was played by Frank Sinatra, with former ER star George Clooney picking up the role in Soderbergh's three films from 2001-2007. Both Ocean's Eleven movies were set in Las Vegas, as was the 2007 sequel Ocean's Thirteen) and see Danny Ocean pulling together a talented crew of misfits to steal millions from casinos. The Ocean's movies are reliably fun romps about charming characters pulling off impossible feats and getting one over on a villain who deserves it.
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The Ocean's films, and Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven in particular, have come to define the modern idea of the heist movie. The tropes established in the movie have been imitated, referenced, and parodied across modern entertainment to the point of ubiquity. Outside of Marvel's Avengers movies (which culminated in their own MCU heist story, of course), the Ocean's franchise was also one of the last film sagas that required all-star ensemble casts of movie stars, with the requisite challenges of finding something creative and
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