Problem!

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2004)

Problem is a lot of who the people who hated this movie may just be missing the boat. If the Ocean thing could be called a series it's a series about style. The Rat Pack was about style. The heists are almost secondary. I suspect Soderbergh was consciously trying to make a very "Euro" style movie. Like 60's Euro, when down and out American actors flooded Europe to make tedious intrigue dramas. The shots, the music, even the graininess of the early scenes in Rome--it all came together for me as such. It was big laugh to me.
But surely the best laugh of all was the "Introducing Tess as Julia Roberts", bit with Bruce Willis. It was excellent. It may not be as good as the first one there was little or no suspense to this one but it didn't matter. It was good, pretty fun. If you really think it was terrible, you may have missed the boat.