Ocean's Thirteen Plot
Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) and Las Vegas' most hated businessman, Willy Bank (Al Pacino), are building a new hotel and casino in Las Vegas, a deal Danny Ocean (George Clooney) initially warns Reuben to avoid. After having secured crucial deals for Bank, Reuben is strong armed into signing over his share of the new establishment to Bank, who leaves him with only a $10,000 poker chip. Looking at the chip, Reuben notices that Bank has changed the name of the hotel from "The Midas" to his own name, "The Bank". Reuben suffers a heart attack from the stress related to this financial loss. The remainder of Ocean's ElevenDanny Ocean (George Clooney), Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle), Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck), Turk Malloy (Scott Caan), "The Amazing" Yen (Shaobo Qin), Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner), and Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison) are gathered around Reuben. They decide to offer Bank a "Billy Martin" (presumably a "do-over", a reference to Martin's repeated hirings/firings/rehirings with the New York Yankees) or "face the consequences" of his actions. He turns down the offer, happily saying to Danny that Reuben "should just roll over and die". Thus, the team sets out to avenge the injustice committed against Reuben. Tess Ocean and Isabel Lahiri are notably absent from this plotleft behind with Danny's simple explanation that "it's not their fight".
First, each of Bank's other hotels has already received the prestigious Five Diamond Award, the highest honor granted to a hotel. The team decides to prevent The Bank from winning it. Saul, under the name "Kensington Chubb", discreetly poses as the reviewer, getting Bank's attention by dropping his review folder exposing the "Five Diamond" logo. Believing Saul to be the reviewer and thus a VIP, Bank orders his entire s..More
Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) and Las Vegas' most hated businessman, Willy Bank (Al Pacino), are building a new hotel and casino in Las Vegas, a deal Danny Ocean (George Clooney) initially warns Reuben to avoid. After having secured crucial deals for Bank, Reuben is strong armed into signing over his share of the new establishment to Bank, who leaves him with only a $10,000 poker chip. Looking at the chip, Reuben notices that Bank has changed the name of the hotel from "The Midas" to his own name, "The Bank". Reuben suffers a heart attack from the stress related to this financial loss. The remainder of Ocean's ElevenDanny Ocean (George Clooney), Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle), Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck), Turk Malloy (Scott Caan), "The Amazing" Yen (Shaobo Qin), Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner), and Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison) are gathered around Reuben. They decide to offer Bank a "Billy Martin" (presumably a "do-over", a reference to Martin's repeated hirings/firings/rehirings with the New York Yankees) or "face the consequences" of his actions. He turns down the offer, happily saying to Danny that Reuben "should just roll over and die". Thus, the team sets out to avenge the injustice committed against Reuben. Tess Ocean and Isabel Lahiri are notably absent from this plotleft behind with Danny's simple explanation that "it's not their fight".
First, each of Bank's other hotels has already received the prestigious Five Diamond Award, the highest honor granted to a hotel. The team decides to prevent The Bank from winning it. Saul, under the name "Kensington Chubb", discreetly poses as the reviewer, getting Bank's attention by dropping his review folder exposing the "Five Diamond" logo. Believing Saul to be the reviewer and thus a VIP, Bank orders his entire staff to see to Saul's every need. Meanwhile, Danny's team engineers a series of mishaps for the real reviewer (David Paymer), a self-described "very unimportant person." Thanks to Danny's crew, he is shown to a room that they have contaminated with bedbugs (among other things), gets food poisoning at a hotel restaurant, and is finally evicted by rude, brutish security guards (Virgil and Turk Malloy in disguise). As the reviewer leaves, he thanks Bank for having him evicted. Bank, of course, ignores this "Nobody."
Second, they rig the casino so that all the players win huge amounts of money on opening night, and, in turn, Bank will lose ownership of the hotel; he is expected by his board of investors to make $500 million in the first quarter to maintain ownership. It's Virgil's task to rig the casino dice at the sourcea Mexican factoryso that the team can manipulate them at the table using devices disguised as Zippo cigarette lighters. However, appalled by the dreadful working conditions in the factory and low pay, Virgil leads the workers in a strike. Turk is later recruited into Virgil's plight when he goes down to Mexico to find out why the holdup. When the rest of the team discovers that the workers' meager demands amount to a lump sum of only $36,000, they agree to write a postdated check for that amount to end the strike. The employees go back to work and the Malloys succeed in rigging the dice. Meanwhile, Danny's team has recruited Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia)who also has a grudge against Bankto trick Bank into buying a rigged domino table run by Frank, who poses as a domino dealer at a gaming expo. With all these devices in place, Danny enlists a teenager working at The Bank to program a trapdoor into the slot machine configuration. Livingston provides Rusty with a counting pattern that can be used to rig a slot machine to pay out a huge progressive jackpot and, after the process is completed, he lets another player take over the slot machine. Finally, with the help of the thirteenth man, Roman Nagel (Eddie Izzard), Livingston rigs blackjack dealing machines in favor of the player(s).
To ensure that all games played at the casino are neither rigged nor tampered with by players, Bank has installed a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence security system known as "Greco"a computer that reads biofeedback data (such as pulse, pupil dilation, etc.) from players in real time, enabling it to determine whether a win was legitimate or expected. Nagel informs Danny and Rusty that the Greco is "housed in an impregnable room", and that "short of walking in with a...magnetron around your neck", there is no way to shut it down. The problem is that they would need to shut it down in order for everything to go according to plan through a simulated earthquake. The Greco takes three minutes and twenty seconds to reboot, during which the team will use all their tricks and riggings to help the other gamblers win as much money as possible, and after the reboot, the team plans to simulate a second earthquake to scare everyone into cashing out and leaving with their winnings instead of continuing to be taken by the house. In order to accomplish all this, the team will use the drill used to dig the Chunnel from the English side. Unfortunately, the drill breaks down before they can use it, so they need to acquire the drill that dug from the French side to finish the job.
The team is unable to come up with the funds to purchase the replacement, so they reluctantly approach Benedict to acquire the capital they need to finance the drill for their "exit strategy"using the drill to simulate an earthquake will force evacuation of the hotel. Benedict is only on board if the team meets his demands: first, he expects the crew to double his investment of $36 million for the drill, and repay him before they do anything else; second, he wants them to steal the things that Bank values most: his collection of diamonds, including the Five Diamond Awards he won previously, which are stored in a glass case in the middle of his penthouse. Though the team had considered stealing the diamonds earlier, they decided it would be near-impossible to get through the security that Bank designed to protect them in addition to pulling off the other jobs they had in mind. Nevertheless, they decide they have no other choice but to accede to Benedict's demand.
With the problem of the drill behind them, a plane arrives at a local airstrip. Yen, under the alias of Mr. Weng, a high-roller and rich businessman, is introduced to Abigail Sponder (Ellen Barkin), Bank's personal assistant, by Linus, disguised with a distinctive nose, who acts as his business manager. Once in his room at The Bank, Yen uses his unique talents to access the elevator shafts and air conditioning ducts, but discovers that indirect access to the penthouse (e.g. by tunneling or using explosives) from above or below will be borderline impossible. Instead, Linus uses a pheromone patch called "The Gilroy" to seduce Sponder, who leads him to the penthouse for more privacy.
Livingston is seemingly caught "Rigging" the card machines by the FBI; an agent (Bob Einstein) tells Bank that replacement machines will be sent over by the manufacturer; however, Livingston hadn't actually tampered with the machines: the replacements were the actual rigged ones. From Livingston's fingerprints, Bank's security team obtains a list of known associates: all of the Ocean's Eleven team. This is subsequently sent to Bank's office. Basher, dressed up as the stunt man for the hotel's opening show, distracts Bank while Virgil and Turk modify the downloaded names and faces so that the team's cover is preserved.
Meanwhile, the drill is activated, causing a small earthquake that fails to shut down the Greco. Concerned, Bank hurries down to the Greco's secure command center. Bank gets a call on his new cell phone (procured as a gift by Sponder), which should be impossible in the reinforced room. Unfortunately for Bank and the Greco, the phone (which was actually supplied to Sponder by Danny's crew) was modified to include a magnetron, activated with a false call: "Plan B." This shuts down the Greco and it takes three minutes and twenty seconds to reboot. The rigged games are all activated. Team members in the casino, including Danny, Rusty, Saul, Yen, Frank, and a recovered Reuben, all make sure that everyone who plays at the casino wins, so the casino pays out millions. After a montage of everyone winning at the rigged games, the Greco reboots. Virgil and Turk activate the tunnelling machine again and another earthquake is simulated, prompting everyone in the casino to cash in their chips and evacuate, taking all their "winnings" with them.
Upstairs, the FBI agent abruptly interrupts Linus and Abigail and arrests Linus. As Linus is led away, the agent is revealed to be his successful criminal father Bobby Caldwell, who is also in on the scheme. When the two reach the rooftop helipad to leave, Franois Toulour (Vincent Cassel), alias "The Night Fox", the antagonist from Ocean's Twelve, reveals himself, having followed the whole crew from the start in partnership with Benedict. At gunpoint, Linus hands Toulour the stolen diamonds. The gun, as he finds out shortly, was not loaded. Toulour escapes, but the diamonds Linus handed over were actually the fake ones. Shortly after, the team circumvents the impregnable display case by simply stealing the entire casing from the hotel, along with a good-sized chunk of the ceiling, with the help of explosives placed there by Rusty, Danny, and Frank, as well as a helicopter.
Danny confronts Bank, telling him he broke the rules and needs to learn from what he's done. Danny drives the point in when he says "You shook Sinatra's hand, you should know better." Saul deliberately walks past the two and Bank realizes that "Kensington Chap" was not actually the Five-Star hotel reviewer. Bank tries to threaten Danny, saying he knows people, highly invested in his survival, who really know how to hurt. Danny responded calmly, saying "I know all the guys that you'd hire to come after me... they like me better than they like you." Danny then says that he figures Bank would not go to the police. Danny and Saul leave the casino and Bank watches the helicopter fly away with his diamonds. Toulour also sees the helicopter, realizing once again that he stole a replica. Minutes later, back at their place, the guys watch Bank's fireworks go off. Danny gives Reuben the deed to 4.6 acres (19,000 m2) of land on the Las Vegas Strip. The next day, Danny meets Benedict at his office and confronts him about hiring Toulour. As punishment for Benedict's double-crossing, Danny informs him that he donated Benedict's share of the money to "Camp to Belong", a camp for under-privileged kids, in Benedict's name. Benedict is obviously not pleased.
Days later, in the McCarran International Airport, Danny, Rusty, and Linus watch as Benedict gives an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, announcing that he donated the money because he was touched by the kids. The three go their separate ways. Linus, the first to leave, has finally gotten a "part" in his father's work. Danny is the second to leave. After they have left, Rusty decides to hit the slots one last time. He starts to put some coins in the machine, but decides to give up his seat to the beleaguered hotel reviewer who is also at the airport. It turns out Rusty used the hacking coin sequence to rig the machine and the hotel reviewer wins $11 million, and Rusty walks off smiling while a crowd gathers (this is significant also because Saul and Turk had earlier discussed how he would get the "Susan B. Anthony" at the airport, with Saul claiming he would undergo the reviewer's plight if he were paid 11 million dollars).
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