Ocean's Twelve is a perfect sequel.

Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2020)

There I said it. It absolutely remembers and honours the details and relationships built in Eleven, respects then and builds on them, whilst also making something completely new. Off the bat Garcia solidifies himself as a hilariously droll comic actor; the sequences of him recruiting the team again shows not only his humour but also his imposing and powerful nature given how delicately he handles every encounter as if he knows how to get to them, he hasn't broken character from Eleven, he's still cool, he's the Twelfth member.
I don't have the time to explain why I love this European Crime Caper Con movie. Where 11 was a finely tuned machine of a movie, 12 had been designed to feel real, magical, but completely real. When Soderbergh does his one for the studio to make up for the (beautiful) bomb Solaris, he really still imbues it with his wit and verve and spirit and unique charm and skills. Another of it's greatest strengths is it's fourth wall bursting, winking script and cast. It's a film that knows itself, and entertains in a way that maybe no other film could ever do quite like this ever again.