An undertaking of jaw-dropping mediocrity

Rating: 4/10 (7 May 2012)

Ocean's Twelve can also be expressed as "what happens when good actors are not discriminating about which roles they play," or "How to abuse your privileged position as an actor with a modicum of effort." The cinematography is inexcusably unfocused; the viewer gets the feeling that the crew are in some kind of fugue, or must be, because there's a distinct impression that many of these scenes were done impromptu, or without so much as a double-take. Seriously. It feels like the mise-en-scene was picked out of a hat. Sometimes in cinema this is acceptable, but here it doesn't feel intended. In fact that's a recurring theme: almost every element of the film feels like a mistake. In summary, this is will-of-the-wisp, trivial film-making to the detriment of all involved. Ocean's Twelve is a pot-boiler that thoroughly humiliates the "Ocean's" string of films. For shame!