Isn't 13 supposed to be the unlucky number?

Rating: 3/10 (27 April 2019)

Do me a favor. Imagine you're tasked with coming up with a sequel - for any movie. What do you think is the first thing you need to do? You need to discover the "soul" of the original film and use it as the foundation for the sequel. In the case of Ocean's Eleven, you're talking about a heist. Then, you'd look at tone. There's a lot of cool, smooth, cleverness going on with a hint of comedy that blends in very well with everything else to make one well-oiled machine. But that's not what the writers of Ocean's Twelve did.
They made a fatal mistake with the foundation of the film. Instead of being primarily about a smart and clever heist, it's about the actors having a good time together. That focus single-handedly got rid of a main heist, transitioning the film into something aimless and convoluted and turned an originally colorful group of characters into a saturated mess that all blend together and no longer play an independent role in the outcome of the film
Furthermore, the type of comedy went from smooth and subtle to over-the-top and even slapstick, which went into some weird and random sound editing issues, like a scene in the beginning where Don Cheadle's character is complaining about them bleeping out curse words in a song while the movie was using phone rings to bleep out cussing in the same scene. It makes no sense with the rest of the movie, only that random scene, and the ringtone was synced with the use of swearing, it was inconsistently patterned so it wasn't even a clever use of swearing either. It is so....bad.
I could go on and on...I just don't get it.