**The Good**:

+ The film doesn’t waste time on reintroducing the characters from the first film along with their new lines – we get to the main story very quickly.
+ The comedy is even sharper in _Ocean’s 12_ compared to the previous film.
+ I like it how the scriptwriters managed to make the stakes in the sequel both higher and more personal when compared to _Ocean’s 11_. It improves on the first film while still staying connected to it.
+ The only interesting part comes towards the end, when **Julia Roberts** plays herself, **Bruce Willis** enters and the entire operation takes a drastic turn.

**The Bad**:

- The music is still too loud and hopelessly annoying.
- _Ocean’s 12_ lacks much of the nice natural flow present in the first film. The sequel is tardier, more bogged down and suffers from an uneven tempo.
- The story progression really doesn’t work. Most of the movie is an overly stretched out set-up and it never shifts into a high gear when it gets to the big bucks.
- The downscaled atmosphere means less excitement and tension – so it never becomes as interesting or compelling as _Ocean’s 11_.
- The messy editing of the era is also present here. It brings realism to some scenes but makes the film as a whole rather confusing to follow.
- The plot is all over the place. It feels like the movie never knows quite what it wants to be or do and it never pulls in the audience like the first film does.
- The heist itself is poorly executed, impossible to follow and contains no hooks to keep you watching to the end.
- The twist at the end doesn’t work, since there is no real reason it should have happened in the first place.

**Verdict**:

Rather than improving on the first film, _Ocean’s 12_ takes a huge step backwards and presents audiences with a boring, messy and uncompelling heist that doesn’t make any sense at all.