Bunch of random set pieces with incoherent story arc tying them all together. Definitely suffers from sequel-itis.

I liked the european touch but overall it was not very good

There are moments where "Ocean's Twelve" is even slicker and wittier than "Ocean's Eleven", but as a whole film, it's a bit too unbalanced in its pacing and way too messy in its plot. Suspension of disbelief is mandatory in this kind of film, but this time they definitely went a bit too far. It's like they purposely made it confusing to the point that you are forced to accept things as they are without questioning. There are the mandatory twists and reveals to change your perception of the events, but the payoff is minimum as you are never any hints on what is going on. "Ocean's Eleven" was more of an ensemble piece, with each gang member having his own little role in the plan. This time the focus is only on the main actors, with more than half of the team left hanging there with no reason to exist. It would have worked better if they didn't try to include all characters from the previous film at all costs. Overall, it's a rather fun film with a good cast, but while the plot tries to be as convoluted as possible, the most straightforward and relaxed bits end up being the most entertaining. The unpopular meta-joke that sees Julia Roberts' character pretending to be Julia Roberts might have been a lame idea, but honestly, I thought Bruce Willis' cameo made it unexpectedly fun to watch (I keep saying he is born to do comedies).

Ocean's Eleven's sequel didn't have the same spark I thought that its predecessor had. The cast and acting are still amazing and some of the wit and smarts shows, but the story line wasn't as interesting to me this time around which made it less fun to watch compared to the other two films in the trilogy. Ocean's Twelve is still an entertaining film to watch through and through but it's my least favorite of the trilogy and a film I usually skip sometimes if I want to watch Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Thirteen.

Do me a favor. Imagine you're tasked with coming up with a sequel - for any movie. What do you think is the first thing you need to do? You need to discover the "soul" of the original film and use it as the foundation for the sequel. In the case of Ocean's Eleven, you're talking about a heist. Then, you'd look at tone. There's a lot of cool, smooth, cleverness going on with a hint of comedy that blends in very well with everything else to make one well-oiled machine. But that's not what the writers of Ocean's Twelve did. They made a fatal mistake with the foundation of the film. Instead of being primarily about a smart and clever heist, it's about the actors having a good time together. That focus single-handedly got rid of a main heist, transitioning the film into something aimless and convoluted and turned an originally colorful group of characters into a saturated mess that all blend together and no longer play an independent role in the outcome of the film Furthermore, the type of comedy went from smooth and subtle to over-the-top and even slapstick, which went into some weird and random sound editing issues, like a scene in the beginning where Don Cheadle's character is complaining about them bleeping out curse words in a song while the movie was using phone rings to bleep out cussing in the same scene. It makes no sense with the rest of the movie, only that random scene, and the ringtone was synced with the use of swearing, it was inconsistently patterned so it wasn't even a clever use of swearing either. It is so....bad. I could go on and on...I just don't get it.