Still, that didn't make Davis any less capable of charming as sharply as the rest of his buddies, and with those bubbling charismas making up this ensemble, it's safe to say that this film marked the beginning of the end of the darker heist films, like Stan Kubrick's "The Killing", which definately knew how to live up to the "killing" in its title, which was to be expected from who was, in terms of pushing the brutality envelope, the original Oliver Stone. If Steve Soderbergh's 2001 version fell as inferior as a remake in no other way, then it was the decision to get Don Cheadle in an attempt to nail this film's concept of having an absurdly white black man, because even with that English accent, Cheadle still paled in comparison to Mr. Man, we're talking Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson and, the whitest of them all, Sammy Davis, Jr. Well, to be fair, the Rat Pack does sound like some kind of '60s heist group, so it was only a matter time, yet that doesn't make the cast any less impressive for the 1960s. It would appear as though it's always been a tradition among the "Danny Ocean" franchise to have the biggest of big-name celebs within your ensemble.
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