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Movie Review - Ocean's Twelve(2004) Comedy Movie By Steven Soderbergh
Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) rounds up the eleven members of Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) gang, and threatens them in order to compel them to pay back the $160 million that they stole from his Vegas casino from their prior robbery, along with $38 million in interest, in two weeks. Together, the unit is less by nearly half, and is pushed to stage another robbery to collect the funds. The unit pick a European target as they are too well accepted in the United States. For their first aim, recommended by an informer named Matsui (Robbie Coltrane) the team goes after the world's oldest stock certificate issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1602. Placed in a private home in Amsterdam, the value would not be enough to settle the debt, but enough to extend their time frame. While the unit is capable to breach the security of the house, including physically lifting the house to gain the correct line of sight to deactivate the security codes, they find they have been beaten by another chief burglar, François Toulour, also known as "The Night Fox" (Vincent Cassel). Toulour invites Danny to his home, and informs that it was he that tipped off Terry on Danny's nightclub burglary, due to being sad that his mentor Gaspar LeMarc (Albert Finney) has believed Danny was the world's best thief. Toulour bets Danny to see who could first thieve the Coronation Egg in the week, offering to pay off Terry's debt if Danny should win. As Danny's unit prepares to rob the Egg during its exhibition at a museum, Europol detective Agent Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who has long been on the track of LeMarc and Toulour, discloses the pilfering of the stock record. She tries to link up the pilfering to Danny's group due to her previous courtship with Rusty (Brad Pitt) and begins to trail them. As such, many of the unit are captured in their first try to rob the Egg, leaving only Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), "Basher" Tarr (Don Cheadle), and Turk Malloy (Scott Caan) free. Linus comes up with a second scheme, in which Danny's wife Tess (Julia Roberts) is to fake as a pregnant Julia Roberts as to allow them to get close to the Egg, but the unit is unintentionally obstructed by the arrival of Bruce Willis (playing himself) who recognizes Tess is not the real Julia Roberts. While Lahiri prepares her case against Danny's team, they are extradited by Linus's mother Mrs. Caldwell (Cherry Jones) posing as a U.S. official. Danny and Tess return to Toulour's estate at Lake Como in Italy, where he reveals his delight at their fate and that he had stolen the Egg at night using his agility to sneak past the laser sensors. Danny informs Toulour that he still lost the bet. Danny explains that when they arrived in Europe, they were contacted by LeMarc and told of the plans to transfer the Egg from Paris to Rome by way of a non-descript transporter while a show of an official band was made. Danny's team was able to substitute the courier's backpack during transit with a same looking one carrying a replica of the Egg with no notice, thus stealing the Egg before it even went on display. Toulour is forced to admit his crush and pays the debt owed to Terry. LeMarc reveals in a meeting with Danny and Rusty that he had been playing a long con. LeMarc wanted to humiliate Toulour by taunting him into the challange with Danny, as well as to regain custody of the Egg that he had stolen himself long ago, only relinquishing it due to his wife's nagging. LeMarc wanted to be reunited with his daughter, revealed to be Lahiri, which could only be done after Danny's crew was banished. With Rusty's help, Lahiri is flown in to an emotional meeting with her father. The unit pays the money back to Terry, though under watch by Toulour, and then enjoys a private poker session, with Lahiri rejoining with Rusty. The movie was released in the United States on December 10, 2004. The movie received halfhearted reviews overall, receiving a rating of 58% at Metacritic. Ocean's Twelve grossed about $125 million in the United States and $351,331,634 after its worldwide theatrical run, while Ocean's Eleven made about $184 million domestically and grossed $444,200,000 worldwide in its entire box office run. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Mitsha is a new writer. Her main job is writing articles about movies. MItsha writes on movie reviews and the trend. |
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