Ocean's Twelve

Year: 2004 Rating: PG-13 Overall Evaluation: 2.5 Significance Suppositions Story Style 2.0 / 10 2.0 / 10 2.0 / 10 8.0 / 10 Click HERE for evaluation criteria.

Style

Rated PG-13 for language. Nothing too terrible.

Story

This story sucked. I like heist movies, and that is what this was supposed to be. Instead it's a lot of talk about heists and of the two that actually occur one is so immoral that one character actually points it out in the film (it's against a disabled person who is not a criminal himself like in their other heists). They simply laugh this off. The second heist is completely boring and unrealistic. If you're going to make an immoral heist movie at least make it interesting! The first hour is just a collection of disjointed character introductions. Most of these characters simply end up serving as mouths for useless one liners. The rest do little more than sit around talking about how great they are. It is one of the most self-serving movies I have ever beheld. I actually started thinking that maybe the actors got together after Ocean's Eleven and said, "Hey, it can't be that hard to make a movie, let's just write our own!"

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To top it off the only law abider in the film (who has dedicated her life to fighting criminals) joins in with the thieves for no other reason than she likes one of them and discovers her father was a thief too.

Suppositions

The worldview of the film is that basically thieves are cool and can get away with anything because they have so many connections and so much money. Besides, this is all they are good at and they just "can't imagine working a straight job." Oh, the poor dears . . .

Significance

The message, if there is one, is that you should always be one step ahead of your competition. Or something. All I really know is that someday I will have to give an account for why I wasted two hours of my life watching this useless piece of trash and hopefully by warning others I will escape a harsh judgment!