Review of Ocean's Twelve (2004) by Filipeneto — 28 Jun 2018

This film is a sequel to "Ocean's Eleven" and reports how the group of thieves from the first film was forced to regroup and commit an assault on Europe. A predictable sequel, given the box office hit.

The first movie was light and funny, but this sequel is only light and boring. The clever jokes that I have observed before have never happened here, and the attempts to make it were so meager and thin that I cannot even say I found it funny.

The script is another problem: the story lacks logic and coherence as if it were a collection of film parts without direct relation to each other. Steven Soderbergh assured the direction and, apparently, the accident as well.

After all, he tried to hold the movie's steering wheel, but he had no strength to hold it. Natural consequence: A good part of the film is a disaster. The film has a lot of the cast of "Ocean's Eleven", which is to say that its filled with stars like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Carl Reiner, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts.

But the overwhelming majority got lost in the middle of the script's confusion and probably regretted having entered the film (if they take their careers seriously, of course). Julia Roberts, who had already gone bad in the first film, was totally devastated here, and the same can be said of Bruce Willis in one of the worst performances of his long film career.

Catherine Zeta Jones was not too bad but this movie didn't give her room to shine. Everything else has no relevance: the scenarios have gone unnoticed, the soundtrack has no quality etc. Everything has been relegated to the background and the public virtually notices any positive point.

Far from having the interest of the first film, this sequel was run only to get box-office money.