Bad Pitt

Rusty from Ocean's 13 is not a fashion icon

June 8, 2007—"You've got style, you've got brio," Eddie Izzard says to George and Brad in Ocean's 13, "but you're analog players in a digital world." Well, he's half right. George and Brad are definitely old-school—one memorable scene has them taking a walk at dusk, bitching about women and how Vegas has changed—but we beg to differ on the whole style/brio thing. Especially when it comes to Brad Pitt's Rusty, the devil-may-care hepcat and, in the Ocean's universe, the paragon of contemporary cool.

Or, in our universe, the world's biggest douchebag.

Off-screen, Brad's been looking pretty sharp of late (dressing in Tom Ford will do that to a guy), and we'd be more than happy to recommend anyone follow his sartorial lead. On-screen, however, he's a style icon in a clown suit. He sports macho, oversized collars and gold pinkie rings. His flashy shirt cuffs are conspicuously unbuttoned. He wears a gold medallion and a compensatory gold watch on his right wrist. And that's just in one scene. (Continuity aficionados take note: The pinky rings mysteriously migrate from one hand to the other in the next shot.)

Given all that, it would be tempting to think of the character as a tongue-in-cheek riff on that guy in your circle of friends who buttons too few buttons and wears too much cologne. Unfortunately, if there's a joke in there, people aren't getting it. Case in point: The Variety review, which called the film "as stylish as an Armani suit." Actually, it's less American Gigolo than American Pimp.