The film features an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy García, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Qin Shaobo, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould.

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.

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.

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.

Before boarding his flight, Rusty gives his last coin to the real Five Diamond reviewer to play on a slot machine in the terminal.

[11] Filming in Las Vegas concluded on August 9, 2006, after scenes involving Clooney, Pitt, Damon and García were shot in an office at the back of the Bellagio.

[13] Topher Grace, who made a cameo appearance in the previous two films as a heavily fictionalized version of himself, was unable to return due to reshoots on Spider-Man 3.

The website's critical consensus reads: "Ocean's Thirteen reverts to the formula of the first installment, and the result is another slick and entertaining heist film.

"[17] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[18] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on a scale of A+ to F.[19] In his review for New York, David Edelstein wrote, "As the plotting gets knottier, [Soderbergh]'s technique gets more fluid—the editing jazzier, the colors more luscious, the whip-pans more whizbang.

"[20] Manohla Dargis, in her review for The New York Times, wrote, "Playing inside the box and out, [Soderbergh] has learned to go against the grain while also going with the flow.

In Ocean's Thirteen he proves that in spades by using color like Kandinsky and hanging a funny mustache on Mr. Clooney's luscious mug, having become a genius of the system he so often resists.

"[21] In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, writing, "Ocean's Thirteen proceeds with insouciant dialogue, studied casualness, and a lotta stuff happening, none of which I cared much about because the movie doesn't pause to develop the characters, who are forced to make do with their movie-star personas.

Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, Danny Ocean's sister, opposite Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson and Nora "Awkwafina" Lum, as a team who takes part in a heist at the Met Gala.