Ocean's Twelve
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Producing a successful remake isn’t easy—but Steven Soderbergh did it in 2001 with Ocean’s Eleven, the remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film. The remake had an amazing cast and a great story. It was Rat-Pack-smooth and Las-Vegas-cool. It was hip. It was swingin’. It was a huge success. So Soderbergh decided to try it again. After all, if he could make a successful remake, surely he could make a successful sequel, too…right?

In Ocean’s Twelve, the star-studded cast returns to do another job. Three years after the Vegas job, Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) decides that he wants his money back from Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the other ten guys who pulled it off so brilliantly. Benedict hunts each one down and gives them two weeks to give him back the money (with interest)—or else. So the eleven head to Europe to do one more job. There, they find themselves in a race against Baron François Toulour (Vincent Cassel), a French thief known as the Night Fox, who wants to prove that he’s the world’s greatest criminal mastermind—not Danny Ocean. And they’re being followed by Rusty’s (Brad Pitt) old flame, Europol agent Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who’s determined to stop them.

Ocean’s Twelve isn’t a horrible sequel, but it still falls seriously short of living up to the brilliance of the 2001 hit. The story isn’t nearly as smooth or as hip—and the twists and turns just don’t fit together as perfectly as before. Instead of relying on a well-written script, Twelve relies more on cheap laughs and cool European locations. And there’s one painful twist that breaks the rules of Hollywood—leaving the viewer feeling cheated.

On its own, Ocean’s Twelve is an entertaining crime film. It’s got a spectacular cast—who obviously had an excellent time hanging out and making the movie together. It’s got action and adventure. And what it lacks in story, it makes up for (well, mostly) in execution. But as a sequel, it’s disappointing, showing that some things are just better left un-sequel-ed.

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