Hollywood has a history of occasionally putting together a stellar cast like no other - think The Magnificent Seven with a cast that included Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Robert Vaughn, or The Towering Inferno with Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, William Holden Fred Astaire and Richard Chamberlain.

1960 saw the release of Ocean’s Eleven, starring Brat Pack members Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis jr. Peter Lawford and Angie Dickinson.

In 2001 director Steven Soderbergh decided to resurrect the event film with a remake of that Brat Pack title, featuring the noughties equivalent, which included George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Bernie Mac, Elliot Gould, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts.

Just getting out of prison is Danny Ocean (Clooney). He’s only just out and already has a plan for a job. Not just any job, but a really significant job, one with a once in a lifetime payout.

But such rewards come at quite a risk, which is why he has to recruit the perfect crew to pull off the perfect heist in Las Vegas. But are they good enough to beat one of the best security systems in the world?

Soderbergh had already dabbled in the crime genre, most notably with his 1998 film Out of Sight, that also starred Clooney. This though, was a very different animal.

It’s a film that relies heavily on the job itself, and thankfully the script was up to the task. It’s a little convoluted, sure, but Soderbergh shows enough of his hand to keep the audience interested. Of course it doesn’t do any harm to have the likes of Clooney and Pitt on screen as well, who would be included in the two subsequent sequels.

It’s surprising to think that the film is 23 years old now, but it is still as slick and fresh as the day it was released. It’s also helped by a superb soundtrack that’s the definition of cool, supplied by David Holmes.

Soderbergh has gone on to make a fair number of films since this trilogy, and it’s fair to say that none of them have enjoyed the same kind of success as it did.

What he pulled off, with a top notch class and riveting plot, was something special here, that has done well to stand the test of time, like many of the other event films that preceded it.