The fun runs out before the movie does

Rating: 4/10 (22 April 2005)

You will do your first double take at the very beginning of the movie when you find that the group that was portrayed as brilliant, gutsy sharpsters in Ocean's 11 falls to pieces at the demand that they repay the guy they robbed in the last movie. Say what?
The lack of credibility might have been bridged by great acting or great chemistry but this movie has neither. It degenerates into a series of photo-ops of the beautiful people, strung together in a manner that is neither convincing, or for that matter, particularly entertaining.
I was personally quite surprised at how good the modern Ocean's 11 was, considering that the original Ocean's 11 with Sinatra and the rat pack left some pretty big shoes to be filled. But Oceans 12 is a stereotyped sequel -- an attempt to capitalize on prior success on the cheap.