very mediocre

Rating: 3/10 (14 April 2005)

just not very good as a whole. I'm glad it rented it instead of seeing it in a theater. too gimmicky is one thing it suffered from: who actually thought audiences would find wit or situational irony in the idea of Julia Roberts character pretending to pass poorly for the "real" Julia Roberts. Suffers from phoned in performances by a cast looking for a paycheck, ala lethal weapons 3&4. suffers from poor pacing, very slow and boring in parts, which leads to the idea of poor editing. important to point out is that you cannot really become invested in any way because the "aw-shucks" attitude of the whole things leaves out the idea that there is any real peril. you don't really care what happens because you know that they are supposed to win at the end and they do. its all very Mighty Ducks if you ask me. and the contrived ending. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER its just a hacky writers trick to let you watch a movie then at the end say "ha ha" what you saw wasn't real. behind the scenes was an oh so elaborate plan that once now revealed to you lets you know that our beloved anti-hero heroes were in complete control all along. so bad and they know it that no one in their right mind would green light an Oceans 13.