Much closer to 11 than 12

Rating: 9/10 (26 January 2008)

Ocean's Eleven was about as good as it gets in this genre, once you watched it through enough times to understand the tricks. Ocean's Twelve was the worst sort of smug Hollywood sequel misfire. The very good news is that this one is much closer to Eleven than Twelve. Danny Ocean gets the crew together one more time when Pacino screws would-be partner Gould in deal to build start-of-the-art Vegas casino. When the price tag for punishing Pacino gets too high even Benedict (Garcia) gets in on the action. The plot takes a little while to get rolling and the chances Ocean takes with Pacino make him look shy in Eleven, but all that said some (but not all) of the magic from Eleven is back. They try replicating the snappy dialogue from Eleven with some mild success, where Eleven was breathtaking this has more the feel of formula work. But a nice formula it is and the makings of an entertaining evening. 9 out of 10.