Oceans Twelve, 2004

“I’m too cool for the big screen”

 I watched this April, 2006 

Plot Summary:  Where the last one left off, this one takes up.  Three years after getting way more money than any of them need, the originals masterminds find that Tony Benedict is out to get his money back.  To avoid jail they have to get it all back.  How?  Pull another big heist.  That’s really all there is to this, folks. 

What I Disliked 

• Hollywood does this way too often, and demonstrates every time that they have long since forgotten about art and is simply into mercenary work.  They find a good idea, which this was in 1960, and then run it to death, way past its time.  So we now have a total of four movies out of one great idea, three of which were unnecessary and a real waste of the viewers’ time and money.  Is that straight enough for you? 
• To be more specific: the actors, the acting, the idea, pretty much all of it. 

What I Liked 

• Maybe some of the witty repartee, maybe. 

Would I recommend it and to whom?  Not on your life, sexy. 

~ by u2isgr8 on March 29, 2008.