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| An impressive collection of Hollywood stars walk on a line on this poster for Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve |
Benedict (Andy Garcia (Stand and Deliver (1988))) is mad at Danny Ocean and his gang after the events of the first film (Ocean's Eleven (2001)), and Ocean attempts to pay him back by involving himself in European heists, facing off against arrogant French master thief competition; 'the Night Fox'.
Ocean's Twelve is written by George Nolfi (Timeline (2003)) and directed by Georgian master director/cinematographer Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)), following up his own success with the 2001 remake of Ocean's 11 (1960).
The impressive array of stars are still hot to look at, (and their characters are now also rich), and they are intermittently amusing, too.
Ocean's Eleven was a tightly composed, chronological heist story oozing with sex and solid laughs. Ocean's Twelve has less of all the good stuff: It fumbles around in time with several smaller heists, characters bickering and other unnecessary elements, nonsense and plot twists.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 110 mil. $
Box office: 362.7 mil. $
= Box office success (returned 3.29 times its cost)
[Ocean's Twelve premiered 8 December (Hollywood, California) and runs 125 minutes. The script was changed to accommodate Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman (1990)) being pregnant with twins. Shooting took place in the Netherlands, including Amsterdam, Italy, Illinois, including Chicago, Los Angeles, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, Monaco and Paris, France from March - August 2004. The film opened #1 to a 39.1 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 3 weeks in the top 5 (#2-#5-#5) and grossed 125.5 mil. $ (34.6 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Japan with 31.6 mil. $ (8.7 %) and the UK with 23.5 mil. $ (6.5 %). It was the 10th highest-grossing film of the year globally. Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, translating to a notch better than this one. Ocean's Thirteen (2007) was also made by Soderbergh with the stars returning. Soderbergh returned first with Bubble (2005). George Clooney (One Fine Day (1996)) returned in Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005); Brad Pitt (Happy Together (1989)) in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005); and Matt Damon (Margaret (2011)) with a voice cameo in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005, TV-series) and theatrically in The Brothers Grimm (2005). Ocean's Twelve is rotten at 55 % with a 5.9/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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