A sequel like many others - a tasteless moneymaker

Rating: 5/10 (21 June 2005)

Three years after incredibly successful and one of the year's best Ocean's Eleven Steven Soderbergh brought to us this sequel which is lacking everything that made original Ocean's Eleven such a good film: original and thoughtful story, decent acting and directing. But with all its success Eleven is a film that don't leave reach opportunities for a normal sequel, at least for the whole Ocean's team sequel. But Mr. Soderbergh has decided to make it so screenwriters were forced to find a way for Ocean Twelve, way stupid and unnatural. Now, the reason to unite Ocean's team again three years after Las-Vegas is Mr. Benedict who seeks the revenge. He has lost no money because of insurance but anyway he wants his money back as compensation from Ocean's team so they need to come back to action. That sounds pretty stupid as well as ridiculous entire story. Nobody cares about characters and acting is mediocre at best. I hope after this disappointment will be no Ocean's Thirteen.