It’s May, so let’s take a look at the Ocean’s Franchise again with its sequel, Ocean’s 12. With the success of the previous film, a sequel was announced but now they no longer have an old movie to remake so they’re on their own, for better and for worse. To handle this job, they got George Nolfi, a relative inexperienced writer, his only other film is Timeline, which was critically panned and a financial disaster. Still, Steven Soderbergh is still directing so there should be some consistency
Made on a $110 million budget, the film was successful, earning $362m at the box office, still less than the $450m the original made, but critics were far less kind to it, with only 54% finding it favourable, whilst scoring only slightly higher at 60% with audiences [has RT taken away the average scores, they provide important context] so what happened here? Let’s take a look.
