One to miss at all costs

Rating: 2/10 (31 January 2006)

I really enjoyed Ocean's Eleven, it's easily one of the most fun, energetic and downright cool movies of the last few years. I'd heard that the sequel wasn't up to much but I thought I'd give it a go anyway. I should have listened to the murmurs. I don't remember any other movie where I've not enjoyed even the slightest little bit, but this one managed it. All of the slick, fast-paced energy that left audiences breathless in Ocean's Eleven is replaced with slow-moving, drab, nonsensical dross that left me cold and malnourished. I hated it. And the thing about Tess looking like Julia Roberts? I didn't find it funny or clever, it was just stupid and lazy. All the eleven are dragged back for no good reason other than to make up the numbers (at least they were all given stand-out moments in the first one). Hugely disappointed.