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This post contains spoilers forOceans 8.
Or … has he?
Youd better be in there, she tells him.
Weve seen Danny Ocean slip through high-tech security systems, casino holding cells, and Andy Garcias clutches.
Surely were meant to believe hes evaded death as well?
We never learn how Danny died.Was hehit by a truck?Shot by an assassin?
In the cockpit of anexploding plane?
Forget getting a story straight, this move doesnt even give us a story.
His gravestone says he died in 2018.Hmm.
Which is why the final scene threw me for such a loop.
Having successfully pulled off her Met Gala heist, Debbie returns to her brothers grave with a cocktail shaker.
She pours a martini, and tells him, You would have loved it.
If youre anything like me, you expected this to be the moment all would be revealed.
Would an elegantly aged hand reach out and take the martini?
Would a male shadow appear from around the corner?
Or, in my dream of dreams, would Clooneys butterscotch baritone intone: I did.
None of those things happen.
(I guess George Clooney hadbetter things to do.)
