And, similar to his marvelous Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (2004), he builds Bank’s villainy on a firm foundation of pathos. Resplendent in lavender suspenders and a glowing orange tan, he’s one of the few actors with both the star power and the gift for self-mockery that this franchise requires.

Pacino is Bank, all right-casting him as the bad guy was worth whatever stratospheric salary he now commands. Ocean’s 13 returns the gang to their Vegas home and focuses them on one specific task: To bankrupt and humiliate a megalomaniacal tycoon named Willy Bank (Al Pacino) who’s about to open an elite hotel after cheating his partner Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) out of his percentage of the profits. Ocean’s 12 (2004) dragged its dozen leads from one European location to another in search of an antique document and a Fabergé egg, pursued by a French superthief and an international cop. In a summer full of ponderous blockbusters (an oddly large percentage of which seem to be the third in a series), Ocean’s 13 (Warner Bros.) is the first I’ve seen that makes the smart choice to downsize from the previous installment.

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