20 Movies So Good You Ignore Huge Plot Holes
7. Ocean's Eleven - An Imperfect Heist
Ocean's Eleven is the dictionary definition of a great Hollywood movie. It's stylish, it's hilarious, it's got a dynamite all-star cast, and it's also got one of the coolest, cleverest heists ever put to film.
It's as charismatic as the mega-stars leading its cast, and it's such an entertaining movie that issues such as an unnecessary romantic subplot involving Julia Roberts or Don Cheadle doing a cockney accent so bad he makes Dick Van Dyke's Mary Poppins accent look convincing quickly fall to the wayside. What'll also fall to the wayside for most viewers is a number of logic issues that leap out when you look closer.
Steven Soderbergh himself has admitted a plot hole regarding the flyers for sex workers that are carried out of the vault in bags disguised as money - these seem to magically appear in the vault, as neither Danny Ocean (George Clooney) or Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon) took them in, yet they were there when the rest of the team arrives.
That's not the only thing. Other examples include the casino's security cameras not picking up the same men wearing several different disguises, and also the EMP that disables the casino's security system not disabling the electronic winches that Danny and Linus use to abseil down into the vault.
Still, such is this movie's charms that these logic issues are just shrugged off. It's hard to care about them in the end.