Despite most reviewers on this site being retarded, they were right about Ocean's 12

Rating: 4/10 (26 December 2005)

Quite a few people have reviewed Ocean's Twelve on this site and I've noticed a few of the same things being said ad nauseum. Some girl from Australia commented on the director going with a "new, popular shaky cam technique" that she didn't quite agree with. Perhaps she was talking about hand-held camera shots which have only been a staple in the arsenal of DP's since...the invention of the film camera? I loved the cinematography of Ocean's twelve. When was the last time you can recall a movie using zoom? Not a dolly shot, not a tracking shot, but a straight-up zoom. It's campy and cheesy, but thats what they were going for. That, combined with a warm yet muted palette and a definitively euro-trash soundtrack, invoke a sense of nostalgia. If any of you have seen old school campy Italian films, you'll know what I'm talking about. To make an already long story short, what I'm trying to say is that this was an amazing -looking- film - one full of style. Unfortunately, the story is far too convoluted. There's a heist, but not really. Once you find out that there was actually a heist -before- that heist, you realize you're wrong. It's apparently all a master plan put into motion by some thief. If that sounds confusing, it is. I'm still not even sure whether or not that's what really happened, I'm only speculating. I still have a hard time figuring out which parts of the movie were real, and which were just facades enacted by thieves.