If you liked the 2001 remake of Ocean’s 11 and didn’t hate Ocean’s 12, you’ll probably enjoy Ocean’s 13, now in theaters. It has the same breezy attitude as its predecessors, with the same big stars portraying members of Danny Ocean’s gang—George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, etc., plus the same solid character actors as in previous installments, including Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Bernie Mac, and Andy Garcia, again under the capable direction of Steven Soderbergh.

Ocean’s 13 definitely lacks originality in this third go-round by the same group in a genre, the heist film, that has been done countless times before. And the central heist is not really a heist but more of a con plus a smash-and-grab, and it is even less plausible than the ones that preceded it. But the film does have two things going for it.

One is a superb villain, a hyper-rich, uber-arrogant hotel owner played by Al Pacino. Pacino makes the character thoroughly plausible and entirely despicable. Watching the gang work to take him down gives the film a satisfying central conceit. In addition, Ellen Barkin provides a vile and yet charmingly vulnerable top hench-person. They make the film go.

The other good thing about Ocean’s 13 is that it tries to motivate the heist more satisfyingly than was done in Ocean’s 12. The team’s money man, played by Elliott Gould, has been destroyed by Pacino’s character and has fallen into a serious illness as a result. In order to bring him around again, the gang decides to take down Pacino’s character.

Certainly the morality is more than a little skewed there, but at least their black idiot hearts are in the right place. These days, that’s above average.