Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

elena-davcheva Honestly, this movie is not bad, it's kind of an interesting mix between action, thriller, and comedy, and definitely not a totally clueless title like Fast and Furios for example, but the whole movie was peppered with these montages of totally irrelevant scenes (e.g. guy doing break-dance while the protagonists are getting arrested???) underscored by ridiculous "robbery" music - at least 3 such montages! It's cool to use these max. twice I'd say, more than that and it becomes a bit repetitive and looks as if the director/producer just didn't have any other means of transitioning between different plot lines. Regardless of this, still a watchable movie. Obviously the acting is great.

Amy Edwards After watching Ocean's eleven, I was eager to see what's Twelve has in store for me. I was expecting something of the same vein with the crew planning another one big score but against someone else as ruthless as Andy Garcia who could get back in the picture to make the things trickier.But I am quite deceived and I feel lost. The casting is still here, Europe is certainly a nice change of setting, Steven Soderbergh is still the director but this movie lacks a story. Why did they think that multiplying the heists would make this movie better than the first one? Did they run out of ideas? And please can someone explain me how they could have made the antagonist so weak and cheesy after the Great Andy Garcia?No offense against Vincent Cassel who is a great actor but it seems so cliché. Is it because he's French that he succeeded to bypass that laser field dancing the tango? I have seen some of the movies he starred in including one called the Hate. In it he's ruthless and very dark. He inspires fear. In Ocean Twelve, it's almost if we would laugh at his face! I also have some doubts about Catherine Zeta-Jones character. She is supposed to be an honest cop. Someone who truly believes in her duty to arrest criminals and thieves but still at the end she's becoming a part of the team? Please!Oh and one last thing, Europol has never been an investigative agency. It's not the European FBI. They are just sharing expertise and information to police forces throughout the EU. They don't investigate and certainly not borrow entire services and resources to their own benefit. This is beyond silly. At least do some research before writing the script.

Floated2 Ocean's Twelve is the sequel to the hit film Ocean's Eleven released in 2001. Starting into the film, it takes place where the crew flies to Europe in an attempt to pull off quick heists in order to pay off Benedict. There, they find out they are up against a mysterious character who is thwarting their plans for some unknown reason. They have to find this person and stop him before Benedict's deadline. They are also being pursued by a clever detective, Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who is close to arresting them. I was willing to put up with this unbelievable nonsense for a time, but my breaking point came when the film actually has Julia Roberts portraying Tess Ocean, who, in turn is portraying Julia Roberts as part of a plot to get close to a guarded treasure in a museum. I don't think this could ever work, but in order for it to have a chance, wouldn't Julia Roberts have to at least establish the character of Tess Ocean first? It ruined the film as a whole and became quite over the top and silly at this point.One of the things you need in order to have a successful heist movie is a good heist, or a good confidence scheme. Here, the big heist at the end of the movie turns out to be an afterthought. It is a throwaway heist shown as a flashback. The acting is casual, at best. The big problem is screen time. There is only enough of it for Clooney, Pitt and Matt Damon. Most of the others in the all-star cast, like Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Andy Garcia and Roberts, have very limited roles.

Cheesus Toast It is probably not so difficult to describe how bad this film really is. It is basically a load of very well paid actors just lounging about doing nothing much. I believe there probably was a script in there somewhere but it is fading from my memory already (I watched the film a few minutes ago - or did I? What was that film I just watched? Never mind, I seem to have forgotten).After watching this I am beginning to wonder if they did actually write a script at all. It almost seems like it was all just ad- libbed. This is how the film goes: It seems that someone at some point planned something and everyone just knew what to do. "OK then, lets go and do some stuff in the most lethargic way possible and everything will be OK. At the end we can all sit around getting drunk and try to work out what just happened for the last few days... and work out if we actually care about it or not. I guess not - let's just get drunk anyway and pat each other on the back for some reason."Yes, it is that bad!