phrosty20

Ocean's Twelve isn't so much a movie as it is an opportunity for the majority of the actors involved to mirror their own predominant personal behavior: pretentiousness. The "coolness" of Ocean's Eleven, prevalently displayed in the previews for the movie, turned me off to it, but I saw it at a friend's after it was released on video and ended up liking it very much. This brand of "coolness" is irritating and confusing, and though the movie can be entertaining, there are far too many subplots for us to care (or most times understand) what is occurring. The major heist involved here is clever and the dialog can be very entertaining at times, but the majority of the movie still feels like a stranger's conversation in which we are just observers. The backstories of many events are shown after the scene in which it would be essential to comprehend, and while this may seem like an original cinematic twist, it just doesn't flow.

Simply put, the movie has little of the original, tightly packed feel of Ocean's Eleven. Most everything goes wrong for the crew this time around, whereas they had an almost perfect heist in the first movie. It's an interesting switch, but it dramatically hurts the pace of the movie. I didn't dislike the movie as a whole, but I didn't particularly enjoy it either.

This movie is totally atrocious. I just finished watching it on the Sci-Fi channel tonight, and the acting is just...well...irritating. Given that this is a B-Horror movie, however, it wasn't too much of a shock, but the acting seems to be even worse than par. Couple this with a fake looking CG crocodile with red(!) eyes, and all the lousy horror conventions makes this a hilarious film. If you're into bad horror movies, you'll love this, but if you're looking for a legit, sarcasm-free scare, look elsewhere.

Typical Jerry Bruckheimer film; if you've seen one of his horribly contrived movies, you've seen them all: the characters are all poorly developed stereotypes and unessential to the plot (except for, say, 2 of them). I'm proud to say I wasn't done in by the marketing and didn't shell out $7.50 to see it; I caught it on TNT the other night. Naturally, the cars are the coolest part of the movie, but I'd rather just go to a car show and check them out than sit through inane, uninspired dialogue loosely framed around a "plot".

The plot is this: Memphis Raines(Nic Cage) has to steal 50 cars in one night in order to save his brother from some kind of evil foreign guy, you know, the kind that's become an archtype in action movies. OK. Here's the thing: his brother is still free, they haven't captured him or done anything otherwise debilitating to him. Why can't Memphis come up with a better idea than doing what the bad guy tells him? Such a desperate attempt in the story is made to make Memphis the good guy, much to the detriment of the already fragile plot. Go see "The Fast and the Furious" instead; the plots are equally inept, but at least TFATF is entertaining.