![]() In this day of $20 million players, it’s rare to see an Irwin Allen-sized lineup of several bona fide movie stars in the same picture, but Clooney and Soderbergh made it happen and it’s a mild treat to watch the thesps good-naturedly bouncing off one another, no matter how inconsequential the material.Įven more amusing is observing two seasoned old pros, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould, devilishly stealing every scene they’re in from their more glamorous cohorts.Ī good part of the fun in this kind of picture derives from the mastermind’s rounding up his crew, each one a specialist in a certain area that will prove critical to the success of the job. Watchable up to a point for the ethos it evokes and historical moment it represents, lethargic pic has no intrinsic credibility or suspense.Īlthough they can’t begin to be compared iconographically to Frank, Dean, Sammy and the rest, the stars are the main event here as well. It is, in fact, an amazingly lazy and lax piece of work, one in which you often feel that it was all director Lewis Milestone could do to get the guys in front of the camera at the same time to say their lines. ![]() ![]() Legendary, after a fashion, as the film that put the Rat Pack together on the bigscreen for the first time, and in a Vegas setting no less, the 1960 production is remarkable for nothing other than its cast.
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