Business Risk Management

FINAL PAPER

BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT

I. SYNOPSIS

The movie plot is basically about the eleven plans to rig a new casino's opening night after its ruthless owner double crosses one of the gang. Reuben Tishkoff in an attempt to legitimize himself in his later years is conned by his business partner and ruthless businessman, Willy Bank, when Bank forces Tishkoff to sign over the ownership rights of the new hotel/casino they were building together. Reuben suffers a heart attack from the revelation and becomes bed-ridden. Danny Ocean after attempting to negotiate with Bank gathers up his partners-in-crime and plans to completely ruin Bank on the night of the opening of the casino, "The Bank", as a way to get revenge for Reuben.

They decide to do so in two ways. First, they plan to prevent Bank's new hotel from winning the prestigious "Five Diamond Award," awarded by the Royal Review board to top hotels. Bank has won them for his four previous hotels, and keeps four celebratory five-diamond necklaces in a secure display case near the top of the hotel. Saul Bloom poses as a member of the Royal Review board, while the Thirteen (and hotel staff on their payroll) make sure that the real reviewer, a self-proclaimed "Very Unimportant Person" is treated poorly everywhere he goes. Secondly, the group schemes to rig many of the slot machines and gambling games to pay out; if the house loses over $500 million, Bank will lose control of the hotel to his board. However, to do this, the group must overcome "The Greco", a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computer that monitors player biofeedback to detect cheating on the gambling floor; they do this by tricking Bank into carrying a cell phone with a magnetron, created by technical expert Roman Nagel, into the Greco's machine room to disrupt the computer. Finally, to ensure guests leave with their payouts, the group plans to simulate an earthquake via one of two giant drills which bored the Channel Tunnel....