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i forgot it was this bad


i am on a heist movie spree, starting with heat and ocean's 11. now i got to this piece of garbage and i regret every minute.

man this was so bad. i remembered it as medicre but i couldn't even watch it the second time. i had to FF through the entire julia roberts thing.

not to mention that the overall plot (or "heist") sucked and made no sense.

benedict should just have found out about them by himself and tell them the egg or they die. cutting all the redundant and implausible extra plot about the detective and the french thief, their dads, linus' parents. all those parents who are apparently allmights but never appear on screen (for long).

heck the french thief and the detective could even be could but the plot was so confusing and ridiculous.

i went on to oceans 13 and it is much better again. the second one just blows. holy crap. it blows hard.

i rated it 6 before. i changed it to 3 now.

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Yep; I gotta agree with you on this one.

Oceans 11 was great; so was 13. Both pure entertainment. But 12 was just ridiculous. ESPECIALLY that part with Tess portraying Julia Roberts because "she really looks like her". I mean really? How stupid was that? Embarrassing to watch.

Add to this the implausible relationship between Rusty and the Zeta-Jones character.... Just a little too much... too far. I had to re-watch it because of loose ends, and more implausible plot lines.

I will agree with your "3" rating.

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DUDE yes thank you totallllly agree. couldn't STAND it. it annoyed me it was so bad and convoluted and boring in the middle. the best part was the end... showing how fox dude got through, and then them ending up screwing him over. finally had a tiny bit of that feeling the first one gives you. but even how they did it still didnt make as much sense and was difficult to understand/believe. the rest was garbage. LOVED the first one, like the 3rd. 2cd one wtf were they thinking? i was hoping it would kind of turn into this like... benedict threatens therm and they team up with the french guy to do another huge heist somewhere cool. and somehow screw over benedict again. anything but the trash they wrote!!

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I remember when I saw this on the cinema when it went. It was so bad the that I cringed through the whole thing.

It was nothing more than a displaycase for a bunch of Hollywood actor.
So unbelievably stupid.

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Ya know the first half is pretty entertaining actually. When they're being rounded up and discussing what the plan will be, it's not bad. The second half however is just awful and drags the whole thing down. Too many twists, with flashbacks during flashbacks, celebrity cameos that have nothing to do with anything, a dumb subplot involving Zeta Jones that was useless, a laser dance sequence, and plenty of footage that could have been cut out.

Oceans 11 & 13 are solid. This is the middle child that should be rightfully forgotten...

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Agree with all you say there!

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It's bad because the movie makes no sense. At the end, you find out they stole the egg while it was in transit to the museum. They had already won the bet.

So what the heck was all the junk they were doing after that? They didn't have to do any of it.

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man this was so bad. i remembered it as medicre but i couldn't even watch it the second time. i had to FF through the entire julia roberts thing.


Could not agree more, I just re-watched it again and also did not remember it being this awful, the whole Julia Roberts / Bruce Willis part was cringe worthy. The 1st movie was excellent, the 3rd movie entertaining, but Ocean's Twelve is boring crap.

Gotta go watch the first film again to get the bad taste of Ocean's Twelve out of my mouth.

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Yeah its a really bad film.

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Thank you OP, thank you!! I agree with every word everyone here has said.

I watched 11 the other day with my gf and last night we watched 12 and I couldn't stand it at all!! I had such a hard time paying attention to it due to how confusing and ridiculous it was.

It also dragged on so much, pointless dialog all over the place.

11 was interesting due to robbing a casino. 12 seems like a forced heist on something pointless. I really don't want to watch 13 now despite everyone saying that it's better.

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Oceans 12 was the worst of the 3 because of the confusing plot. Thank goodness 13 was better.

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