Wow...and not in a good way (SPOILERS!!)

Rating: 6/10 (5 January 2005)

Walking into the theater expecting to see a mind boggling oceans 11 in Europe i was found with a movie filled with photogenic movie stars, a ridiculous crime spree and brad Pitt looking suspiciously gay.
Ocneas 12 starts out showing the relationship between Interpol agent Isabel Godknowswhatherlastnameis and everybody's favorite henchman rusty Ryan. the scene tried a little hard to be funny and killed itself brutally. Skip to when Andy Garcia tracks down all of the gang. Basher who was known in oceans 11 for his funny phrases(were in barney) starts off swearing more than 50 cents . The amazing Yen is suddenly the amazing Chinese "ganster" and Livngston is doing god knows what in another kill its self scene. You expect the story to pick up and when they're announcing they are going to steal 3 highly valued products you get prepared for them planning then at the end somehow using the grace they did in oceans 11 pull it off. instead you get Julia Roberts playing the worst actress...herself, random OVERstreatched Bruce Willis moments, barely any Bernie mack(Frank Catton), Elliott Gould(Reuben Tishkoff) and Carl Reiner(Saul bloom). Then we get hit with some random gay acrobat from Euorpe who "challenges the gang to a rob off and the winner gets the coveted title of BEST Thief. after that oceans 12 just takes off towards a spiraling black hole. the movie drifts so far from crime that you end up thinking you accidentally walked into 13 going on 30(or 50 in Clooney's case). it was cute in oceans 11 where you saw how well Rusty and Danny knew each other but in oceans 12 you have no friggin clue whats going on when they speak to one another. Matt Damon's character of Linus Caldwell stayed the same from oceans 11 to 12 and this movie saw a lot more of his but his role crashed and burned with a random escape with his mother. The actual robbery in this film is basically told by Danny and Tess when they visit with the euro thief man. in oceans 11 they start with the idea for the crime in the beginning, planning in the middle, and BAM great crime finish leaving you to fill in the blanks. in oceans 12 they start with the crime, completely lose sight of it, then ends leaving you thinking of what you could've bought at McDonald's with the money you just wasted. The whole i stole you stole it but i stole it first idea was poorly placed in this film. it lead you to believe that this movie was going to end big and great like oceans 11 but instead the real crime in switching bags with random man on a bus. Not even George Clooney Brad Pitt and Matt Damon hotness shadow over the wet dripping disappointment this movie was.
******out of 10 (**** out of ten if brad Pitt and Matt Damon weren't so hot)