The recipe for making a bad film.

Rating: 2/10 (31 May 2007)

I saw this on the Cannes Film Festival last week and it was definitely the worst film shown. I think Ocean Eleven was a fair film considering the type of genre. Ocean Twelwe sucked big time. So I went to this with the expectation, that Ocean Thirteen would suck just as much. That pre-expectation was not fulfilled. This is a perfect recipe for making a bad film with a billion dollar cast. Now Al Pacino played as always brilliantly, but that was thanks to his talent, NOT Steven Soderbergs actor directing, because he didn't get anything out of Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon or for that matter the rest of the cast. They didn't tribute with anything besides their smiles, good looks and their presence. The film lacks of feelings, emotions, renewal and charm. All I saw was a scene by scene in an coincidental order trying to tell a story that didn't make sense at all. Every time a new scene played, the audience has to figure out time, place, meaning, character relationships in a matter of seconds, before the film changed scenario again. The audience have to figure out, what happened immediately before the scene, because that is not explained and have to figure out why and how they did so. All very confusing. All in all I think Mr. Soderbergh, Mr. Clooney, Mr. Pitt and all the rest of the cast, should put a lit on this trilogy and try to renew themselves with a new concept to make money.