Sometimes I find my mind wandering over various eclectic topics ad occasionally I am inspired to write some of them down. Today I was thinking about Ocean’s 11.
To be clear – I love this film. It’s smooth, suave and very clever. But there’s one part in it that completely lets it down. It’s a fairly major plothole that occurs during the movie that no-one has ever explained* (and it seems few have spotted) which, for me, puts a dampener on the overall polish of the film.
It is this (SPOILER ALERT):
During the heist itself, Danny, Linus and Yen are in the vault when Rusty makes the call that alerts Benedict to their presence - prompting him to call the SWAT team - in which he ‘offers’ to let Benedict keep half the money if he will let them take the other half which apparently is then sent up in the lift in several black holdalls, taken out of the casino by Benedict’s men and then loaded into a van which is then tailed to the airport and – ultimately – proves to be full of flyers for prostitutes.
Here’s the issue:
Neither Danny, Linus nor Yen carried anything down with them to the vault that would have concealed these flyers, there was nothing placed in the vault that would have contained them (according to the plan) and it couldn’t be that the flyers were in the ‘SWAT team’s bags as the team went down AFTER the flyers came up.
This means that, unless Danny is some kind of mutant or teleporting magician, there is no way those leaflets could have got into those bags (and, consequently, into that lift). Accordingly, there would have been nothing for Benedict’s men to take out to the van to be eventually blown up as a distraction and the only way they could provide the full bags that were placed in the lift to be collected would be to sacrifice half the money – as they threatened.
Otherwise their whole scheme would have been blown and they would have got absolutely nothing.
Watch it again and tell me I’m wrong.
* I’ve since discovered that even the director, Steven Soderbergh, can’t explain it!
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