Different & smart sequel

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2005)

Actually i wanted to give the film 8/10 but somehow clicked the button while it slipped to 10 somehow! Anyway, the film is quite good, i understand why many didn't like it but at first i was confused as how they got the Fabergé egg, but when i saw it a second time, i realized i had missed about 4 seconds that explained it all. It would be fair to say that the team this time got away with murder, seeing the way they got to it first before the Night Fox, it does amount to cheating but hey, this is robbery and he did bring it on himself by ratting out on them all for his inflated ego. the film veers quite a distance from the first one, i guess soderbergh was smart not to repeat himself or copy the same formula which would have been terribly boring. Instead, he changes it a bit & adds a different colour & dimensions to the characters. If someone wants to see a replica of Oceans eleven, then perhaps they wont appreciate 12 a lot, i prefer twelve to eleven as it was smarter & stylish. The bit where they try to fool the museum by pretending Julia Roberts is actually,Julia Roberts is quite an inventive piece, not to mention hilarious as well. I think for twelve to have been a really great film ,it would've been half an hour longer. The Night Fox is really more subtle & perhaps better than they are, after all, he is only one person & they are eleven, or are they now twelve? I didn't make out who is £ 12 now, Catherine zeta Jones or Vincent Cassel, cos at the end of the film one can clearly see there's gonna be a third installment & i hope there is, perhaps next time they rob a Japanese/Chinese museum, or attempt to steal diamonds from Africa, whatever they do i hope the same cast returns! Only thing i didn't like in the film was brad Pitt's hair!