10 Movies That Tried To Subvert Expectations (But Still Sucked)
2. Ocean's Twelve
In this awful first sequel to what might be the greatest heist movie of all time... there is no heist. It's supposed to be a heist movie, but whenever anything does get stolen, it's off-screen. And what did it offer instead of a heist? The crew talking about doing various robberies but never actually doing them, an endlessly convoluted series of double-crosses, Vincent Cassell's villain doing a silly dance through some security lasers, and worst of all, a beyond bizarre scene in which the character played by Julia Roberts impersonates Julia Roberts.
The aforementioned Now You See Me films kept offering plot twists that negated everything that came before, and Ocean's Twelve is very much guilty of this as well. The majority of the plot is about the team trying to outsmart master thief the Night Fox (Cassell) and steal a jewelled egg before he does.
Towards the end, it appears that the Night Fox won and stole the egg, but Danny (George Clooney) and Co. actually stole the real egg much earlier and were just putting on a show while the Night Fox stole a replica. What on earth was the point of pretty much anything that happened in this movie, then?
In general, this is not only a nonsensical film, it's a movie that's so boring and so anticlimactic that it seems to give its audience the middle finger. As such, it ranks among the worst sequels to a great movie this century.