As Expected

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2010)

It's a well-known fact that a sequel to an ultimate success usually turns out to be an ultimate failure. That's certainly the case with Ocean's Twelve. I felt as if I'd been thrown down the stairs after the movie ended: from Ocean's Eleven, a witty, exciting film with a well-balanced plot, to a complete mess. The characters seemed to be failing all the time, up from when Andy Garcia comes and says he wants his money back down to the moment when Julia Roberts is jailed (by the way, was she Ocean's twelfth? I thought there's no one else fit for the role but still that wasn't emphasized enough in the movie). Such a string of failures isn't good for a movie of that genre: a question pops up: what's this for if they can't do anything? Their deal with LeMarque, revealed in the end, can't match all those tricks and sophisticated schemes we enjoyed in Ocean's Eleven. And something went wrong with the humor: you can laugh three or four times, and later start wondering what was so funny. It could've been FAR better.