Stars in Dust

Rating: 5/10 (15 April 2005)

How can the director of 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape', 'Erin Brockovich' and 'Traffic' do such a bad film? I was no fan of 'Ocean's Eleven' either, but 'Twelve' is by far worse. The film belongs to the genre of big burglary movies, but there is no credible or interesting story to follow or tell about. It's just a pretext to gather the most impressive list of stars in a major movie in the last year, and put a failure in the biography of each of them. The problem is that the story line is so broken and so confuse, that I simply did not understand the end, and worse than it - I did not even care. The brightest idea of the script is a cameo in cameo trick - you will find out when time has come, but it's too little for a genre that asks for creativity and humor. Some of the stars on the screen do their best, each is certainly flattered to share the screen with the other, but this is one of these movies where the stars simply cannot save the day. What a gathering of talent, and what a less than mediocre result. 5 out of 10 on my personal scale.