Ocean's Thirteen

Reuben Tishkoff builds a hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Against advice from his friend and erstwhile criminal partner Danny Ocean, he becomes involved with investor and casino mogul Willy Bank, whose thugs strongarm Reuben into signing over his ownership stake. As a result, Tishkoff suffers a heart attack and becomes bedridden. Ocean offers Bank a chance to set things right, but Bank refuses and completes the hotel, renamed "The Bank". To avenge Tishkoff, Ocean gathers his crew to ruin Bank on the hotel's opening night. The crew's plan has two objectives: Prevent The Bank from winning the prestigious Five Diamond Award, which all of Bank's previous hotels have won. Saul Bloom acts as the anonymous Five Diamond reviewer, while the real one is treated horribly. Rig all of the casino's games to pay millions in winnings; Bank's casino must make $500 million in the first quarter to stay open. Otherwise, Bank will lose control of his hotel to the Board of Directors. While they can implement various rigging mechanisms into the casino, Danny and his crew can be stopped by the Greco, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computer system that monitors gamblers' biometric responses and detects cheating. To disrupt the Greco, they plan to use a magnetron disguised as a cell phone as a gift to Bank. They also obtain the drilling machine used to bore the Channel Tunnel to simulate an earthquake under the casino to evacuate the premises. Their plan on opening night is to have Bank inadvertently disrupt the Greco with his new phone, initiate their rigged machines, as well as dealers on their payroll, and simulate the earthquake to force the evacuation, so that players leave with their winnings. Shortly before opening night, the drill breaks down. The team is forced to ask Terry Benedict, their previous target, for funds to buy a replacement. He offers the money for a portion of the take. He dislikes Bank and demands that they steal Bank's private diamond collection that celebrates his Five Diamond Awards. The jewels are secured in a case at the top of the casino. Ocean has Linus Caldwell seduce Bank's assistant Abigail Sponder to gain access to the case. Secretly, Benedict contracts master thief François "The Night Fox" Toulour to intercept the diamonds. Ocean institutes the final part of the plan by having FBI agents on his payroll arrive at the hotel and arrest Livingston Dell on suspicion of rigging the card-shuffling machines, allowing them to be replaced with actual rigged ones. The same FBI agent arrests Linus for switching the diamonds with fakes. The agent takes Linus away and he turns out to be his father Robert, whom Ocean enlisted. Trying to evacuate from the roof, they are intercepted by Toulour. He takes the diamonds off Linus and parachutes off the roof after tricking him with an unloaded pistol. However, Ocean anticipated this and never had Linus make the switch. Linus and his father escape in a helicopter piloted by Basher, tearing the case of diamonds out through the roof. The earthquake is triggered and the players evacuate with millions of dollars in winnings. Ocean tells Bank he is the mastermind and that they did it for Reuben. He reminds him that he cannot get revenge, since Danny knows all of Bank's associates, who prefer him over Bank. He also cannot go to the police due to Bank's illegal activities. With their share of the winnings, Ocean's crew buy property on the Strip for Reuben to build his own casino. Ocean donates Benedict's $72 million portion of the take to charity in Benedict's name, forcing him to admit his philanthropy on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Ocean, Rusty, and Linus say goodbye at the airport. Before boarding his flight, Rusty gives his last coin to the real Five Diamond reviewer to play on a slot machine in the terminal. The reviewer, unaware it is rigged, wins $11 million and publicly celebrates his winnings as Rusty walks away grinning.

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