It’s all about style in Ocean’s 8 movie

Ocean’s 8 is the all-female successor to the Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13 franchise, which starred lots of men with Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Instead of George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt, in Ocean’s 8 we get an all-female cast which includes, Sandra Bullock, Rihanna and so many more famous women, and cameos that include Kim Kardashian and Serena Williams. The movie, which will premier in Kenya on Friday, has been described as an all-fashion affair.
Ms Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean (a career criminal fresh out of jail, who is the sister to George Clooney’s Danny Ocean - the star of the previous films) who sets a complex jewellery heist with the titular eight that include characters played by Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Rihanna, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina and their target Anne Hathaway.
Bullock and her right-hand woman, Blanchett, target Hathaway - a celebrity/socialite who plans to attend the Met Gala wearing a diamond necklace worth more than $150 million.
It’s a complex blueprint she has laid out, with a lot of moving parts. If you’ve seen any previous Ocean’s picture you know not everything is as it appears, and the twists and turns keep coming in entertaining fashion, and in this case, fashions.

HEIST

In addition to the heist aspect, this movie also is a sly satire on the high fashion industry and the over-the-top showcase it gets each year at the Met Gala, essentially an outrageous charity event where no attire is too extreme.

There are a lot of fun cameos thrown into the mix, as you might expect, but the strength is in the expertly chosen main cast, who all deliver in style. Bullock is ideal as the determined Ocean who seeks to out-do older brother Danny. Ironically, as in Gravity, Bullock has found a vehicle in which to dispose of a Clooney character in one way or another.
Blanchett nicely balances out Bullock’s Debbie, and you believe this pair has pulled off a few fine con jobs in their day. Among the others, Bonham Carter is a riot as a not-quite-top designer who manages to weasel her way into the confidence and bosom of Kluger.
Hathaway has a field day with her vain character, stealing every scene she’s in. Rihanna as the hacker Nine Ball also manages to stand out in this crowd.
And in case you wondered, there are a couple of men featured along the way, including an old nemesis of Debbie’s named Claude Becker who gets set up as Kluger’s date for the Gala, with the emphasis on set up. Comedian James Corden arrives late in the film as a take-no-prisoners insurance investigator trying to solve the case.
The film is loaded with style, fun twists, and exactly what you hope, for the setting of the biggest jewel heist ever in plain sight during the New York City’s Met Gala, which is held every year on the first Monday of May.

The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Gala and also known as the Met Ball, is an annual fundraising gala for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. It marks the grand opening of the Costume Institute's annual fashion exhibit.