Ocean's Twelve (Widescreen Edition) (2004)

Style over substance

A very disappointing sequel with little of the magic of the first film. Whilst it's watchable enough it's never truly engaging, the plot is wafer thin and the story hops about all over the place with no real direction. It comes across as a 2 hour showcase for the big names with each of the stars jostling for screen time. The script is filled with irrelevant chatter, the Chinese man Yen has practically zero lines and zero duties and therefore zero point being in the film other than to make up the original numbers, Andy Garcia comes across about as menacing as the Andrex puppy and Bradd Pitt is constantly stuffing his face. I must just mention the part with Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts actually pretending to be themselves in real-life, I guess this is supposed to be funny but it's really just ridiculous, and any film where there is a character called "The Nightfox" you'd expect to be related to Marvel comics. This was a sequel made purely to cash in on the success of the first film, it's filled with slick filming (though a little too much wobbly camcorder action for my liking), nice locations and wardrobes, but none of this helps to save what's in the end not even in the same league as it's predecessor - I was gutted when I left the cinema.

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