Good but with a disappointing aftertaste

Rating: 7/10 (3 January 2005)

OCEAN'S TWELVE is an entertaining sequel but it fails to accomplish its mission a)to be as good as Ocean's Eleven and b)to be a believable continuation of the first film.
It's all to obvious that the screenplay was meant for another film and therefore what was so convincing in the first film, that the heist actually needs 11 thieves to be a success is missing here. Some of the actors don't really get much screen time, it's just like the red carpet at a premiere, everyone smiles but with no content.
In fact the series of heists that take place here are always on the edge of being too confusing, it's exciting to watch, but in the end thinking of it, it seem more like chaos hiding the lack of a solid story.
This series of discontinuity has its climax in the style of the film. I don't get why the same director and cameraman decides to change the style from calm overview images to in-the-face hand-held camera.
From OUT OF SIGHT to OCEAN'S 11 every Soderberg movie was great. I think this had to end somewhere.