Ocean's 13: Lame Movie, Cool Hotel

6/06/2007 at 1:22 PM
Tags: Movie Set Hotels, Celebrity Scoop

Last night, we snuck a preview of Ocean's 13 at a press screening of the film at the AMC Loew's Times Square.

The movie, although tediously formulaic, came up with a pretty sweet fictional Vegas hotel to rob. While the site of the heist in the first movie is an actual place -- The Bellagio -- the hotel/casino in this movie is a figment of the writers' imaginations. Simply called Bank, after Pacino's bad guy in the movie, Willy Bank, the hotel is an orangish glass structure consisting of three symmetrical towers winding around each other like a strand of DNA.

Inside the hotel, however, the décor seems a bit too retro for the building's modern exterior. Also, Brad and George (well, Rusty and Danny) ensure a noted hotel critic has a restless stay. Between bed bugs, noxious odors, rude staff, and food poisoning, we're pretty sure if we were in the critic's place, Bank would make our hotel hell listing.

The movie opens Friday. Go see it, only if you want to check out the digs. The plot is superfluous. It goes a little something like this: guy gets wronged, team of buddies assembles, revenge plot forms, heist ensues, success, team stands in a line looking up at the sky while soft music plays. Roll credits.