10 Complex Movie Schemes That Actually Make No Sense

4. Ocean's 11 Isn't Nearly As Smart As It Thinks It Is

Movie villains don't have a monopoly on exceedingly complicated schemes that really shouldn't work but, somehow, do (at least for a little while). Heroes can get in on the action, too, mostly in the form of the heist film, where the main draw is seeing the characters put together and successfully pull off a complicated plot. Which is all well and good, especially when it's filmed in the glitzy star-studded fashion that Ocean's 11 is, but if you stop to think about the whole thing for a minute you realise there's plot holes that you could drive a bus through. Danny Ocean's plot to rob a trio of casinos with the help of a sub-Rat Pack crew seems incredibly smart and complex but, really, it's only the latter. As soon as you start picking apart the mechanics of how they managed to rip off the Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand casinos in one night, it all starts to collapse. Basically any time the plan seems to diverge, stuff just sort of works out, which it shouldn't because the whole thing was so clearly planned out beforehand. There's even a bit that doesn't make sense and Steven Soderbergh admits as much on the director's commentary, noting it's a screenwriter screw-up. The original plan is stupid enough, though, with the building of a replica vault, fake SWAT teams and the like (all of which probably cost more than the money they made in the end). Would've been easier to just hold the casinos up to be honest.