10 Most Shamefully Lazy Plot Resolutions In Movie History
4. Ocean Pulls A Switcheroo - Ocean's Twelve (2004)
2001's Ocean's Eleven assembled an all star cast for a highly entertaining caper flick about a group of cons who rob a casino for 150 million dollars. In Ocean's Twelve, Terry Benedict, the casino owner the Oceans crew robbed in the first film, tracks the professional thieves down and demands his money back or else. Ocean is at a loss what to do until rival thief, the Night Fox, offers to pay Oceans debt if Ocean can steal a priceless Fabergé egg before the Fox can in a game of professional thieves poser. Ocean's crew tries their best to get their hands on the egg, going so far as creating a holographic facsimile to swap for the real egg, but fail in all their attempts.
The Night Fox manages to scoop Ocean and gets a hold of the egg first. It seems all is lost for Ocean until the God of plot contrivance allows him to escape his predicament far, far too easily. Ocean reveals that the Fox's mentor, master thief LeMarc, tipped Ocean off ahead of time that he could intercept the Fabergé egg while it was being transported between museums. LeMarc intended for the Fox to steal a fake egg as a means to humiliate his protégé.
This way too convenient set of circumstances zaps the haphazardly paced feature of any tension, giving the impression that Clooney and his cronies wanted an excuse to hang out and whipped the plot together almost as an afterthought.