Julia Roberts: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

4. Tess Ocean - Ocean's Twelve (2004)

If you look closely at Julia Roberts at any stage during her performance in the worst of the Ocean's movies, you can see exactly what contractual obligation looks like. Brought back as Danny Ocean's wife Tess, who definitely isn't pregnant, despite the very poor effort to actually hide Roberts' real baby bump, Roberts sleep-walks through the little she is given to do. At one stage, right at the end, there's a shot of her and George Clooney sitting waiting to reveal the machinations of their plot to fool Vincent Cassel's ludicrous pakour enthusiast The Night Fox, it's very clear that she isn't even acting. And as the best testament to how poor (or probably more fairly, how uninterested she is,) when she is charged with pretending to be herself - which is presented as a clever heist technique, but comes off as a blatant and stupid way to account for Roberts' pregnancy - she is completely upstaged by Bruce Willis playing himself. Which in itself is an extraordinarily awkward thing to watch (aside from when he checks out Catherine Zeta Jones, leeringly.) For some reason, her nose is wet and red for the entire film as well. Pregnancy is weird.