Soderbergh at his finest

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2005)

The people who are slating this film are truly missing the joke. Ocean's Twelve is beautifully and cleverly shot and shows Soderbergh's true style. The comedy within the film is superb and the cast truly know how to make fun of themselves and their real life celebrity. The film does not have the slick style of the first but has now more of the mark of a Soderbergh film with many of his signature style shots, an example being when the film comes together and goes from black and white into colour, which is reminiscent of a great scene in Kafka. As most film-goers, I expected the film to look and feel the same as the first but the film far exceeded my expectations. Soderbergh has truly put his own mark on the film, far more so than the first. The combinations of different filming styles are excellent and suit their scenes perfectly, the music is spot on and the humour exceeds the first. To all the people who are disappointed purely because they expected the film to be exactly the same as the first should be more open minded and embrace the freshness of this film that retains a great plot, acting, and humour with a new visual style.