Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Ocean's Twelve

I loved Ocean's Eleven, one of the coolest movies I've ever seen. It was awesome and great fun. Ocean's Twelve? Not cool, and less awesome and fun, but still good.

This one is really different to Eleven, mostly because it's set in Europe, and though I normally love movies set in Europe, I felt they didn't make use of the European cities as well as they should.

The chemistry between the cast is still excellent, and Vincent Cassell (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Irreversible, Monica Belluci's husband) was great being the addition to the cast as well as Catherine Zeta-Jones who had excellent chemistry with Brad Pitt.
Most of them play same time as in the first though there are some changes: Matt Damon is more time on screen now and plays a major part in the story, Julia Roberts stays out of it for a long, really long time and then comes back for the finally when she's in all the time, Bernie Mac is the one that lost the most time and protagonism.
Brad Pitt's part is bigger than George Clooney's this time and the rest of the guys are mostly the same.
Catherine Zeta-Jones gets lots of time being the good cop trying to get them and Vincent Cassell plays the nemesis of the group as they compete (in stealing that is) for the same prize. Cassell gets lots of time here.
Andy Garcia is back and he starts its all and then disappears until the end of the movie.

Overall, a very different movie than the first one but still enjoyable though I felt it was kind of slow at parts. And definitely not better than the first one.