Shoddy acting, weak plot, utterly disappointing!

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2004)

I just saw this much hyped film (thanks to advance publicity, including the Diane Sawyer ABC special). Too bad, I got sucked in and wasted 8 of my precious dollars. The main story is weak, and there are too many subplots which are totally unnecessary, distracting and very annoying.
It looked like the different actors of the original Ocean's 11 cut some sort of a deal with the Producers and Director whereby they were all given more screen time - there in lies the first big flaw. Second almost all of the actors didn't make any effort to deliver their characters. Often I felt that almost everyone was just reading their lines without any emotion or passion - the only exception was Catherine Zeta Jones who made a genuine effort to deliver her character of an Interpol agent. Although her various successful and magical red-handed arrests of the various team members of Daniel Ocean appeared too cheesy at times.
Julia Roberts looks tired and old in most scenes; I don't understand why she couldn't have been made more presentable using make-up etc..
My recommendation is to wait for the DVD which should be out in a month or two.