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Ocean's Twelve
Warner Bros.

Ocean's Twelve reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 58 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.4 out of 10
based on 39 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language

Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and Julia Roberts

Danny Ocean (Clooney) and his team look to burgle three different locations throughout Europe. (Warner Bros.)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Comedy  |  Crime  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: George Nolfi
George Clayton Johnson (characters)
Jack Golden Russell (characters)
 
DIRECTED BY: Steven Soderbergh  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: April 12, 2005 
Video: April 12, 2005 
Theatrical: December 10, 2004 
RUNNING TIME: 125 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Soderbergh seems to have found his vision again. It'll be a great day when he returns to writing his own material, but until then, this is none too shabby.
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80
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
For sheer urbane elegance coupled with technical mastery and lush, old-fashioned élan, no one working for the studios today comes close to the versatile Soderbergh.
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78
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Let’s be honest: With a cast like this, it doesn't matter too much what the characters are doing onscreen, or if it makes about as much sense as a monochrome rainbow.
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75
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The film Soderbergh's made is about promiscuous stargazing. And you don't need a brain for that, just two eyes and a mammoth appetite for heavenly bodies.
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75
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
This loose, slightly lazy sequel is both funnier than the original and more bizarre.
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75
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie is all about behavior, dialogue, star power and wiseass in-jokes. I really sort of liked it.
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75
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Forget the plot of Ocean's Twelve - you will by the time you leave the theater, if not sooner. This slickly entertaining sequel is all about savoring eye candy.
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75
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Whatever substance there is of Ocean's Twelve fades faster than invisible ink. But it's not the kind of movie you watch for plot details. It's really about spending two hours on that Lake Como speedboat, relaxing with pals.
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75
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
As soon as it's over, and you find yourself back in the harsh light of the workaday world, you'll be hard-pressed to remember what happened. Except that you'll remember enjoying yourself - immensely.
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75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Isn't just a double whammy, it's a whammy squared - a goofy, stylish heist movie that'll steal moviegoers from other pictures.
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75
USA Today Claudia Puig
At the rate things are going, all of Hollywood will put in about a day's work on "Ocean's Seventeen."
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75
Premiere Glenn Kenny
Soderberg provides a cornucopia of fizzy, post–New Wave imagery, fitting for a picture that’s pretty much all about surfaces.
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75
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Enjoyable, and will likely appeal to anyone who appreciated the 2001 film.
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70
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Stephen Mirrione's fast-paced editing and David Holmes' pop-rock score propel the story ever forward whether one follows the twists or not.
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70
Variety Todd McCarthy
This smooth inside job benefits from heightened bonhomie among the players, fab Euro locations and a diminished obligation to stick to the heist genre boilerplate.
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70
New York Magazine Ken Tucker
So fizzy it nearly fizzles out.
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70
Village Voice Dennis Lim
Funnier and sprightlier than Eleven, which exhibited a genial self-consciousness but never thought to challenge the genre textbook, Twelve is committed to not taking itself seriously.
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70
The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Enjoyable, unabashedly trivial caper flick.
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70
Film Threat Clint Morris
This film's twelve times better than anything else on offer at the moment.
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70
Washington Post Desson Thomson
In this sprawling oglefest, such things as "narrative" and "story" are remote little abstractions indeed.
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70
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
A light, smartly turned-out amusement, the sort of thing that's becoming more and more rare on the movie landscape these days.
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70
The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
What it retains is a playful sense of style, that combines with an anything-goes spirit.
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67
Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Is it style over substance? Absolutely. But as with "Ocean's Eleven," style wins -- only just barely this time around.
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67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
As a caper movie, it's a travesty that's impossible to understand or follow, but it's quite funny and clicks along nicely as a giddy, self-deprecating showcase for its gaggle of stars.
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63
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Likable as it is, suffers from that modern big-movie vice: overkill.
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63
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Even frothier and more frivolous than the first movie: It's a heist picture so laid-back and unconcerned, even the heist feels like an afterthought.
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60
Newsweek David Ansen
Busier, messier and thinner than its predecessor...the studied hipness can get so pleased with itself it borders on the smug.
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60
Empire Dan Jolin
Compared to its ultra-slick predecessor, it's a bit of a mess. But it maintains a breezy sense of fun and certainly looks as cool as its minus-one equivalent.
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50
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Clooney and company work it too hard this time. You can tell they're huffing and puffing to stay afloat. But all I hear is: glug glug glug.
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50
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
All I got was this lousy movie. OK, it's not that bad, though in contrast to "Ocean's Eleven," which gave its megastars a neat little heist story, this sequel is both contrived and convoluted.
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50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Ocean's Twelve lacks the courage of its star-driven convictions. Next time, Steven and George and Brad and Matt should ditch the hypocrisy and just shoot themselves shooting the breeze, poking fun at each other from within the smug sanctuary of their precious celebrity.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The fact that the movie has to entertain with digressions is an indication of more than looseness, but rather a shoddiness...Nothing connected with the job is of any interest at all.
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50
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Isn't good and isn't bad, it just isn't. A lethargic would-be entertainment as well as a dispiriting vanity project, it is such a misfire that it makes it hard to remember what was special about its predecessor.
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40
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This lackluster sequel was surely much more fun to make than it is to watch.
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38
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
You don't want to look at anything else when Zeta-Jones is on-screen.
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33
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
What's on screen is lazy, second-rate, phoned-in -- a heist in which it's the audience whose pockets have been picked.
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20
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
These people -- the filmmakers as well as the cast -- have brought a rare sense of camaraderie to their work. Unfortunately, they forgot to bring a script. They even forgot, in the midst of their joyous self-involvement, to take good pictures of the places they visited.
20
Slate David Edelstein
George Clooney is all by himself among living leading men in making smarm pass triumphantly for charm. But the movie lacks momentum, clarity, a decent payoff, and a location with the personality of Vegas.
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20
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
About halfway through you'll get an incredible hunger to see a movie.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.4 (out of 10) based on 122 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jared C. gave it an8:
At the end of The Player, Robert Altman got Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts to spoof their status as the biggest box-office draws of the time. Fifteen years later, Steven Soderbergh uses the same two stars in order to skewer celebrity culture as a whole. Ocean and gang are back and absolutely better than ever.

[Anonymous] gave it a1:
I didn't even find this movie enjoyable. This was an AWFUL sequel.

Riren gave it a5:
Take all the celebrities from the first film, add a few more faces, and remove all sense of pacing. That's your sequel. Less sense of purpose, even less screen time for its characters, less witty dialogue - Ocean's Twelve makes you wait an hour before the crew start doing what you've been waiting for them to do. It feels less like a story and more like playground for wealthy actors. Matt Damon is the sole individual who ups the charm from the first movie, and while there is entertainment and wit in here, it shouldn't be so hard to excavate. Don't bother watching it without friends to help you laugh.

Jared C. gave it a7:
In a way, I think this one was better than the first. Ocean's Eleven had some style, but this one ruled the comedy room. Even though this one was kind of slow, it had a cool plot and amazing acting.

Stephen B. gave it a0:
I was stunned at how unbearably dull this film was. Please do not think that the first film was good so how bad can the sequel be. Its awful. There are some talented actors on the screen, however all the wit and verve of the first film has been removed with a dreadful script and surprisingly poor pacing and direction from Soderberg. Please avoid.

Me U gave it an8:
This movie is the best stages and filmed ever. Sure it doesn't look like it but the filming, scenery, and everything goes with the feel of the movie. Also, i am glad they went for a different feel using music unlike all the other movies. Sure it was filled with all famous stars but without them being great actors who would even declare them!

Matthew M. gave it a0:
I think this is the worst film I have ever seen. The Slate review had it right. All smarm. Tries to be far more clever than it actualy is. A plotless piece of self-indulgence from start to finish, this is the only film I have ever considered walking out of. The only reason I didn't was because I thought it had nearly finished..... it hadn't.

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