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Ocean's 12

the verdict:

As my mate Stu described it "Absolute knickers". Biggest load of tosh I've ever watched. Slight exaggeration maybe, but still it wasn't great and certainly not as good as the first one.

The main issue with it is that it feels like there's just too many disconnected little events going on which are supposed to all build together to create the one film. But they don't really. Obviously they need to set the scene, which is fine, but dull. The scene is that Benedicts who they nicked all the cash off of in the first film wants his money back. So they go to Amsterdam to pull some jobs to get some money. But then it goes wrong because some other con-man thief type bloke is actually just trying to prove that he's better than Ocean. So then they have a challenge. But then of course that all goes wrong when they end up in jail. And then the twist is...?

Well, I won't spoil it, but TBH it ain't much of a twist because the whole bally thing is just plain confusing. And disappointingly weak, really.

I left the cinema having watched the first one thinking it was good, but was trying to be too clever (in the multiple story Lock Stock kind of way). The second goes further, by not being particularly good, trying to be way too clever and simply ends up in a "WTF Lock Stock meets Memento meets Mulholland Drive" way.

Definitely only see this film if it's all that's left in Blockbuster on a cold weekend night, when your missus has left you, your dog has just died and your beer is warm. And you've shit yourself.