If you are only familiar with Director Steven Soderbergh's take on the story of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) in the Ocean's trilogy - which started in 2001 - you might not know that the actual first movie centered around a guy named Ocean and a major heist in Las Vegas actually came out in 1960. So who in this series are the best and who are the worst?

I feel pretty comfortable saying I'm going to ruffle a few feathers with this rank, and I am Good with that. I love taking hyper-specific hills and then dying on them; It's one of my absolute favorite hobbies. Still, with only five Ocean's movies to choose from — putting aside the rumored foreshadowing with Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie as Dani's parents — it's a pretty close ranking, but there's still a definitive answer. Here are the Ocean's movies ranked from worst to best, and I guarantee people will be furious about the number two spot, specifically.

I have to admit, right off the bat, that I walked out of Ocean's Thirteen in 2007 because the movie felt like such a labyrinthine mess that I couldn't bear to watch another second of it. In the third entry in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's trilogy, the gang reunites again Because Ruben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould), one of his own, is slated to open a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip ... only for one of his main investors, Willy Bank (Al Pacino), to force him to give up most of the his share. When Reuben has a heart attack, Dani and his crew decide two things: they will destroy the reputation of the property that was once Reuben's and now belongs to Willy (and is called "The Bank") by preventing it from winning an industry award, and that they engineer the machines so that patrons win more than usual and prevent the casino from making a profit.

Ocean's Thirteen's layers are twist after twist after twist and produce only diminishing returns as Danny, Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), and the rest of the Heist-Polters work behind the scenes to destroy the bank . Add in a third-act castle tie-in to The Oprah Winfrey Show for absolutely no reason, and you've got an Ocean's on Ocean's movie on your hands ... which is simply unacceptable as a standard when Soderbergh and Clooney are still involved.

The biggest sin that the original Ocean's 11 commits is that it's just not as fun as the version that came out 41 years later. Directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer, the 1960 version of Danny Ocean's Heist story stars a bunch of guys from the Rat Pack - namely, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. As Danny Ocean, Sam Harmon, Josh Howard, Jimmy Foster and "Mooshy" O'Connor, respectively. In this iteration, Danny and Jimmy, two World War II veterans, round up nine other people and decide to rob a whopping five casinos in Las Vegas (Sahara, Riviera, Desert Inn, Sands, and Flamingo, specifically; Of these five, only Sahara and Flamingos still exist today).

Perhaps the weirdest part of the movie is that in the end, the guys don't even get their money from the Heist - because the guy on the crew, Peter Bergdorf (Richard Conte), has a heart attack and dies before it's over. Desperate, the guys dump their windfall into Bergdorf's casket, only for his widow to burn the whole thing down - including the cash. The original Ocean's 11 isn't bad, but it never reaches the heights of the remake.

"Oceans' Twelve" gets a lot of heat—probably because it had the misfortune of following the near-perfect "Oceans' Eleven"—but it's certainly not the worst of the five films; In fact, it fits pretty squarely in the middle. Released in 2004, Ocean's Eleven reunites the same gang from Ocean's Eleven, but gives Tess the Tess Way of Julia Roberts (in the first film, she spends most of it squabbling around a casino near the beautiful works of art that are disappointed in George Clooney). It also, quite cleverly, picks up the same narrative thread from the first film, leaving badass casino boss Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) to go after Danny and his crew for robbing him in the previous film ... and not just Danny stole Terry's Terry's money, he also stole his girlfriend (meaning Tess, who is romantically involved with Terry in "Ocean's Twelve").

To recover Terry's money without getting killed, the crew of twelve prepare to pull off a heist in Amsterdam, but soon realize that Europol detective Isabelle Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-onesons) is hot on their heels... and Then Realize she actually knows rusty. With Isabelle basically on board, the gang enter into a sort of Heist competition with master thief Baron Francois Toulour (Vincent Cassel) with a Fabergé egg as the prize - which will allow Danny and his team to pay off their debts. Add in a fun, silly plot where you need Tess Sources of Julia Robertsand Honestly, you have a pretty good Ocean movie!

In case you haven't figured this out yet, I want you to know that Ocean's 8 " Absolutely rules. Directed by Gary Ross, the 2018 heist flick and spin-off uses just one person from Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's crew—Elliot Gould's Ruben Tishkoff, who appears at the very end of the film—while still keeping him in the same universe. The ocean in this film, Debbie (Sandra Bullock), is Dani's sister. (We find out that Dani is dead, but we don't learn anything about his death, and that's the only part of this movie that I don't think is amazing.) After spending a lot of time in prison, Debbie returns to New York and tells her friend and tells Lou Miller (Cate Blanchett) that she's ready for a huge new job—and that she intends to rob the Met Gala, the annual Vogue event presided over by Anna Wintour that invites the most beautiful people in the world to be entertained at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Specifically, Debbie loves a certain Cartier necklace, the Toussaint (which, by the way, is a real necklace).

The rest of the crew is comprised of hacker Leslie "Nine-Ball" (Rihanna), jeweler Amita (Mindy Kaling), pickup truck Constance (Awkwafina), human-movement Tammy (Sarah Paulson), and fashion designer Rose Weil (Helena Bonham Carter). . Using Trick Trick Trick Traughty Movie star Daphne Kluger (a wonderful Anne Hathaway) in wearing the necklace so they can pass her off for a fake trip through the gala. This movie is an absolute blast, and the only thing really wrong with it is that James Corden shows up near the end.

Steven Soderbergh's first Ocean's film, Ocean's Eleven, is perfect. The film, released in 2001, introduces us to Danny Ocean for the first time as he, like Debbie in Ocean's 8, leaves prison; After heading from New Jersey to Los Angeles, he meets up with Rusty before the two travel to Las Vegas to talk to Ruben Tishkoff. When the two tell Reuben they need his money to bankroll a huge heist where they rob the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand—all of which are owned by Terry Benedict—at which point Reuben tells them they're crazy. However, like Danny, Reuben has a grudge against Terry, so he agrees to finance and help them, at which point the gang reunites.

Among Con Man Frank Caton (the late Bernie Mac), Mechanics Virgil and Turk Malloy (Casey Affleck and Scott Caan), Explosive Geiser Tar (Don Chudle), Acrobat "The Incredible" Yen (Qin Shaobo), Electronics Expert Livingston Dell (Eddie Emison ), older but still very experienced Con Man Saul Bloom (the legendary Carl Reiner), and, finally, pickup trucker Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), eleven have everything covered. When exactly do you realize How They pull off their heist - right down to the arch replica - your jaw will be on the floor no matter how many times you've seen the movie, and if you don't feel a rush of joy as they all stand triumphantly in front of the Bellagio Fountain after robbing Terry Blind , you are dead inside. Ocean's Eleven is the best of the Ocean's movies, and it's not close.