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George Clooney,
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Steven Soderbergh,
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: Warner Home Video
: Comedies, Capers, Quest, Revenge
: 125 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish, French
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After pulling off the heist of their lives, Danny Ocean and his pals unexpectedly find themselves back in harness in this sequel to 2001's blockbuster hit Ocean's Eleven. After robbing a cool $160 million from the Bellaggio Hotel Casino and winning back his former wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), from Bellagio owner Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is living quietly on the lam in Connecticut when he's unexpectedly approached by Benedict. It seems Benedict has tracked down Danny and the ten men who helped him pull off the seemingly impossible robbery, and Benedict offers them a proposal -- if they can repay the $160 million in two weeks, he won't have them killed. As it turns out, both Danny and his best friend, Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), haven't been doing so well in terms of money management and could use some cash, so they set out to plan a robbery to recover the loot, with the same crew helping out -- Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle), Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner), Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison), Yen (Shaobo Qin), Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck), and his brother Turk (Scott Caan). Danny and Rusty discover that an incredibly rare Fabergé egg is being displayed at a museum in Rome which would fetch the price they need, but they soon discover a notorious cat burglar, François Toulour (Vincent Cassel), is also after the egg, and it turns into a race to see who can claim it first. Adding to the intrigue is Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a woman Rusty used to be involved with who is now a top agent with Interpol and is after both Toulour and Ocean's crew. Shot on location in both the United States and Europe, Ocean's Twelve was, like its precursor, directed by the stylish Steven Soderbergh, who also photographed the picture under his nom de lens, Peter Andrews. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| let well enough alone
by alexjb
November 28, 2005 - 11:10 PM PST
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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i'm insulted by this movie, though it shouldn't surprise me. as others have pointed out, the movie's main purpose is to be a vehicle for the actors to play off of each other. it serves that purpose well enough, but misses opportunities to be much much more.
in the effort to up the ante, the stakes have to be high enough to matter, but this film pushes things into the stratosphere- hoisting a fabrege egg from a ludicrously well-guarded museum, with tens of millions and their lives at stake. it also uses a lot more 'mission impossible' style heists, as opposed to the initial film's heavier focus on character-driven Cons, making it less interesting to re-watch looking for clues and inconsistencies.
the one exception is brad pitt's storyline- a suitable and even interesting backstory on Rusty that could have been more central to the plot but wasn't, it flows reasonably well through the whole thing. if you liked the Rusty character, watch O12 for that and let your eyes glaze over during most of the rest...
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| Meh
by brakhage
May 14, 2005 - 3:52 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| I really liked Ocean's Eleven so I was interested in checking out whether anything decent could be done with a sequel. It's still fun, everyone involved seems to be having a good time, but there's no dramatic tension; you know everybody's too cool to be hurt or even worried. I didn't mind because I get a kick out of Clooney and Pitt doing rapid-fire sentence-fragment scenes, Matt Damon is always good, it's nice to see Vincent Cassel, Eddie Izzard, Elliott Gould ... you see where I'm going with this. If you're into watching movie stars hang out and be, well, cool, then this is your thing. |
| Money-Grubbing and Worse: Everything Is Ersatz
by talltale
April 12, 2005 - 2:43 PM PDT
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6 out of 8 members found this review helpful
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OCEANS 12 is the nadir of commercial moviemaking--a film that exists only to make money and did: cynical, pointless, with no real comedy, drama, intelligence or style and a plot full of holes to boot. Supposedly filmed all around the world, the movie manages to make each location looks canned. I'm sure I am being unfair in ranking this one lower than it may deserve, but movies in which every moment is ersatz--the jokes, the feeling, the "adventure"--really push my badmouth- button the hardest.
The movie boasts a cast that ranges from Clooney and Pitt to Cherry Jones and Albert Finney, and everyone has proved him/herself wonderful previously (well, Pitt has at least risen to the so-so). Here, they all come off as simply "used," while director Soderberg descends another notch to "hugely overrated." Worst of all, this fiasco lasts more than two hours. For shame. |
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