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{{short description|2004 film by Steven Soderbergh}}
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'''''Ocean's Twelve''''' is a 2004 American ] ] directed by ] and written by ]. The second installment in the ] franchise and the sequel to '']'' (2001), the film features an ] including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].


''Ocean's Twelve'' was released theatrically in the United States on December 10, 2004, by ]. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $362.9 million worldwide, becoming the ]. It was followed by '']'' (2007), with Soderbergh and most of the cast again returning.
'''''Ocean's Twelve''''' is a 2004 ] that takes place after the events of the 2001 movie '']''. Like its predecessor, the film is directed by ] and stars ], ], ], and ]. The film was released in the United States on ], ] (see ]).


== Plot ==
In spite of extremely high ] expectations and a promising opening weekend, ''Ocean's Twelve'' was not a very big box office hit, at least not compared to ''Ocean's Eleven''. As of ], ], the movie grossed about ]125 million while ''Ocean's Eleven'' made about $184 million in its entire box office run. ''Ocean's Twelve'' grossed $362,744,280 after its worldwide theatrical run.
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Terry Benedict locates all eleven members of ]'s crew, demanding they return the $160 million ] plus $38 million in interest. He gives them a two-week deadline to return it or he will either get them all arrested or killed.


Short by half the amount, the group schemes to stage a heist in ] to avoid problems with U.S. authorities. Saul decides not to participate since he is too old for another grand heist. They are tipped off by an informant named Matsui about the location of the first ] ever issued. After a complex series of schemes, they find the document has already been stolen by master thief the "Night Fox".
The film is rated ] in the ], ] in the ], and ] in ]. As with the first film, there is no sex, violence or strong subject matter and it was the inclusion of a few choice sexual swear words uttered in a non-sexual context that upped the film to a more commercial rating. According to ] News, a sequel is in the works, with a ] of '']''.


] detective Isabel Lahiri is called in to investigate the theft and realizes that she gave Rusty the idea of how to solve a complication of the heist with a description of a similar burglary during their earlier relationship. Surprising the group at their accommodation, she warns them they cannot beat the Night Fox or his mentor, the mysterious master thief "LeMarc",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/oceans-12_roughdraft1.pdf|title=Spelling of "LeMarc" from the script}}</ref> both of whom excel in the "long con", and steals Rusty's phone. She has been hunting both for years.
==Cast==
*] as Danny Ocean
*] as Rusty Ryan
*] as Linus Caldwell
*] as Terry Benedict
*] as Tess Ocean (Danny Ocean's wife)/Julia Roberts
*] as ] ] Isabel Lahiri
*] as François "The Nightfox" Toulour
*] as Gaspar LeMarc (uncredited)
*] as Virgil Malloy
*] as Turk Malloy
*] as "The Amazing" Yen
*] as Frank Catton
*] as Basher Tarr
*] as Saul Bloom
*] as Livingston Dell
*] as Reuben Tishkoff
*] as Himself
*] as Molly Star/Mrs. Caldwell


Danny and his crew discover that the Night Fox is François Toulour, a wealthy French ] and ] with a villa on ]. Danny goes to the villa and steals Toulour's paintings. Confronting Toulour, Ocean learns that Toulour exposed their identities to Benedict (breaking the code of silence among thieves) and hired Matsui to inform the crew about the stock certificate so as to meet with Danny. Toulour is outraged when LeMarc suggested Danny may be a better thief than him, so he challenges him to steal the ]. If Danny and his crew win, he will pay off their debt to Benedict.
==Plot==
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At the opening of ''Ocean's Twelve'', the eleven members of ''Ocean's Eleven'' are living their lives separately off the fortunes of their ] ] heist in the first film. Terry Benedict (]), the owner of the three casinos, confronts each member of the team in turn, demanding the team return his money, with interest. Benedict gives the team two weeks to come up with the money, which amounts to $190 million.


The crew begin to plan an elaborate heist to swap the egg for a ], but Toulour gives the camera recordings from his villa to Lahiri, who deduces that they want to steal the egg through an intercepted phone call to Rusty. She then captures most of the crew except Linus, Basher, Turk, and Saul.
Ocean and the team decide to stage another heist to pay off the debt. Being too hot to work in the United States, they pick a European target: the world's oldest ], which was issued by the ] in 1602, and is kept in ]. Ocean's Eleven manages to breach the security around the certificate, but a rival thief, the "Night Fox" (]), beats them to the document.


Linus comes up with a second plan involving Danny's wife, Tess, posing as a pregnant ] in order to get close to the egg and swap it. They are foiled by Lahiri and a coincidentally present ], and the rest of the group members are captured. Lahiri is told that they are to be ] to the U.S., while Linus is chosen first to be interrogated by the ] agent assigned to collect them. The agent is actually Linus's mother, who organizes the release of the whole gang. She points out to Lahiri that she will face consequences for forging a signature on a Europol form to obtain the necessary arrest warrants for Ocean's gang.
As it turns out, The Night Fox is the one who revealed the identities of the Eleven to Benedict. The Fox is incensed that his mentor, the retired thief Gaspar LeMarc (]), hailed Ocean's Eleven casino theft as one of the best thefts ever committed. The Fox breaks "rule number one" (revealing another thief's identity) in order to lure the team to Europe, where he can propose a challenge: the theft of a ]. Both Ocean's Eleven and the Night Fox will attempt to steal the famous ] within a week; the first to succeed will be declared the better thief. If Ocean's team wins, the Fox will pay off the team's debt. With no other options, Ocean accepts the challenge.


Sometime later, Danny and Tess return to Toulour's villa, where Toulour expresses glee at their failure. He explains that he stole the egg at night using his agility and dancing skills to evade the museum's heavy security. Toulour's celebration is short-lived when Danny reveals that his group stole the real egg while it was in transit to the museum, and Toulour realizes they were tipped off by LeMarc.
Meanwhile, a female ] detective, Agent Isabel Lahiri (]), hears of the increased theft activity in Amsterdam. She forges her superior's signature on a request form in order to procure enough resources to track down the Eleven. Eventually all eleven members are captured, but are released when Linus' mother, masquerading as a U.S. official, manages their extradition.


A flashback reveals that Danny and Rusty had met LeMarc earlier when he revealed his ] intended to humiliate Toulour and, at the same time, restore to himself the Fabergé egg that he had stolen years ago but returned following his wife's wishes. Toulour is forced to admit that Danny won the bet and gives him the money for the debt to Benedict.
Later, at the Fox's home, he delights in explaining how he was able to steal the egg. Ocean then reveals the truth: the contest was over before it began, and the egg that Fox stole was a fake. Ocean and associate Rusty Ryan (]) had previously visited LeMarc and learned the location of the real egg: traveling by courier to the museum exhibition. The team steals the egg, and replaces it with a replica, but goes through the motions of a museum heist to throw off the Fox's surveillance. The Fox is crestfallen, and Ocean gets the money that The Night Fox had given to LeMarc to hold in confidence when the competition was first proposed.


As the crew pay back Benedict and promise not to perform any more heists in his casinos, Toulour is seen in the background spying on them. Rusty takes Lahiri to a safe house that he claims has been lent to him by LeMarc. There, she is reunited with her father, who is revealed to be the man she has been pursuing for years: LeMarc.
It is not until the end that the viewers realize that LeMarc was actually the mastermind behind the entire operation. By deliberately making the Night Fox feel inferior to Ocean's Eleven, he manipulates the Night Fox so that he enters into a competition with Ocean's Eleven. This is "the solution to all our problems" that he alludes to in the meeting with Daniel and Rusty. The Night Fox is the mark, and Ocean's team are essentially the pawns of LeMarc. Their task is to acquire the egg relatively simply, and then get caught. This convinces the Night Fox that he has won, although the contest is just misdirection. Another goal of LeMarc is to be re-united with his daughter, Agent Lahiri, who had thought her father had died over a decade previously, and had no idea that LeMarc was her father.


==Cast==
The result of the entire adventure is that Ocean's Eleven is now in the clear with Terry Benedict; the extraordinarily talented Night Fox is disgraced (both in fortune and in reputation), and LeMarc is reunited both with his daughter and with the Fabergé egg he had stolen years earlier. This illustrates the artistry of LeMarc, and why he is regarded so highly amongst those who perform the long con; unfortunately it is not well explained in the film. This is the reason LeMarc is so apologetic to Daniel and Rusty, and he claims "I'm still getting the better of you" at the end of their meeting.
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===The Twelve===
The bottom line of the film is that there is a critical error of judgement by the Night Fox. The Night Fox is a conceited, but extraordinarily talented ], and thinks of the casino heist as being no more than an elaborate theft. However Ocean's team in both movies is clearly made up of ]s performing "the long con".
{{cast list|
* ] as ], an ex-con who leads his group in a heist across Europe
* ] as Robert "Rusty" Ryan, Danny's friend and second-in-command
* ] as Linus Caldwell, a known pickpocket
* ] as Frank Catton, an ex-]
* ] as Reuben Tishkoff, a wealthy friend of Danny
* ] as Virgil Malloy, an expert mechanic
* ] as Turk Malloy, an expert mechanic and the brother of Virgil
* ] as Livingston Dell, a surveillance expert
* ] as Basher Tarr, an explosives expert
* ] as "The Amazing" Yen, an acrobat
* ] as Saul Bloom, an elderly con man
* ] as Tess Ocean, the wife of Danny
** Roberts also portrays herself in the film in a scene where Tess is impersonating Julia Roberts as part of the con and her character is talking on the phone with her real self.
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===Others===
The Night Fox relies on his physical prowess, and possibly acquiring codes and other information by bribes or brute force. Ocean's teams, however, rely on social engineering, long-term misdirection, and confidence plays. The Night Fox, despite all of his skills, is essentially artless, and this sets him up as the mark for LeMarc and Ocean's team in this film.
{{cast list|
* ] as Isabel Lahiri, a Europol detective
* ] as Terry Benedict
* ] as Baron François Toulour/The Night Fox, a master thief
* ] as Gaspar LeMarc (uncredited), a former master thief and the mentor of Toulour
* ] as Roman Nagel, a master thief whom Danny knows
* ] as himself
* ] as Van Der Woude
* ] as Molly Star/Mrs. Caldwell, the mother of Linus
* ] as Ian Nicholas McNally / Matsui, an informant with connections to Danny
* ] as himself
* ] as Saul Bloom's Girlfriend
* ] as Denny Shields (uncredited)
* ] as Basher's Engineer
}}


==Production== ==Production==
The script was reworked when ] learned she was pregnant with twins.<ref>{{cite web|title=OCEANS 12 - Production notes - Twelve Is The New Eleven|url=http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=2805|publisher=CinemaReview.com|access-date=December 1, 2013|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203020130/http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=2805|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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The filming of ''Ocean's Twelve'' took place at many locations worldwide, including:
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The film was shot in 2004 in ]; in ]; and in ] at the ]. Filming also took place in ], ], ], ], ] (at ] in ]), ], and ] in ]. The production spent three weeks in the Netherlands; scenes were filmed in the ], the ], the ], and ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sceen-it.com/sceen/382/Ocean-s-Twelve/City-Hall|title = Ocean's Twelve at City Hall - filming location}}</ref> In Paris, scenes were shot at the ], the ], and the ]. Afterwards, filming moved to Italy. The ] and the ] (on Lake Como) also served as filming locations.<ref>{{cite web|title=OCEANS 12 - Production notes - About the production|url=http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=2807|publisher=CinemaReview.com|access-date=December 1, 2013}}</ref>
==Additional notes==
*Matt Damon's character quotes the lyrics to the classic ] song "]" in a scene with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Robbie Coltrane. The other three men say seemingly non-sensical phrases, and Matt Damon doesn't know what to say on his turn, so he quotes the song, saying, "Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream, I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been."
* The sequel was based on an unproduced spec script by ] called ''Honor Among Thieves'' that was originally intended to be directed by ].
* The music Benedict plays on the piano when he comes to visit Basher is called "Requiem for a Dead". It was written and performed by ].
* The real ] by Carl Faberge was made in 1897 and is kept in the ] in ], ]. It was bought in ] for $2.2 million by the ] and was on display in ] &mdash; along with eight other eggs and 180 miscellaneous articles by Carl Faberge &mdash; for 25 years. On ], ], ] ] tycoon ] bought the whole collection back for ] for about $90 million. The 1897 egg was valued at between $18 and $24 million. The replica seen in the film was made by the jewellers ] and is worth over $4,000.
* When he meets Tess at the Rome hotel, ] asks about Danny. ]' husband's name is Danny Moder. Linus also refers to Tess as "J-Ro".
* The laser field "dance" scene (featuring the song "Thé à la Menthe" by La Caution) is remarkably similar to a scene in 1999's '']'' where Catherine Zeta-Jones also plays both the thief and the detective.
*There are a few references to ] with Matt Damon's character telling Bruce Willis how he figured out he was dead. A member of the museum's staff makes the same comment.
* One of the running jokes in the film is that other characters remark that Tess Ocean bears a striking resemblance to Julia Roberts. To take the joke further, Tess later impersonates Julia Roberts; this breaks the ], as Tess is actually played by Julia Roberts. This is brought strikingly and amusingly home when Julia Roberts, playing Tess, is complaining about the Julia Roberts role she is expected to perform and tells Matt Damon's character, Linus, "No, you're playing a role, I'm apparently playing a real person!" To take it one step further, in the film's credits, Tess Ocean is credited as having played Julia Roberts.
* Another running joke is that despite the fact that Yen only speaks Mandarin, most of the characters seem to be have little to no problems understanding him. Benedict even converses with Yen in Mandarin when confronting him.
* This film is considered a form of ]. Another running joke, and an example of the metafilm idea that crosses movie boundaries is Frank's character, played by Bernie Mac, who also appears in Bad Santa as the character Gin. I
in both movies Bernie Mac's character likes to have his toenails manicured and painted with nail polish in nail salons.
* When Ocean's crew steals The Nightfox's paintings, they steal the ones that form a middle finger.
* This is the first sequel for everyone except Matt Damon who filmed the Bourne Supremecy just before this movie.


==Soundtrack== == Reception ==
On review aggregation website ], the film holds an approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on {{RT data|count}} reviews, and an average rating of {{RT data|average}}. The website's critical consensus reads, "While some have found the latest star-studded heist flick to be a fun, glossy star vehicle, others declare it's lazy, self-satisfied and illogical."<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes |id=oceans_twelve |title=Ocean's Twelve |type=movie |access-date={{RT data|access-date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> On ], the film has a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite Metacritic |id=oceans-twelve |title=Ocean's Twelve |type=movie |access-date=May 3, 2022}}</ref> Audiences polled by ] gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web |last1=D'Alessandro |first1=Anthony |title='Ocean's 8' Steals Franchise Record With $41.5M Opening – Final Sunday Update |url=https://deadline.com/2018/06/oceans-8-sandra-bullock-box-office-hereditary-hotel-artemis-1202406200/ |website=] |access-date=May 3, 2022 |date=June 10, 2018}}</ref>
] returned to compose the music for the sequel and won a ] award. The film's commercial soundtrack is absent of the music used during the Nightfox "laser-dance" sequence in the film. The clip is from a track called "Thé à la Menthe" performed by La Caution, according to the film's end credits. The song "Amsterdam" by David Holmes was released as a single and does not appear on the soundtrack. Also, the track titled "The Real Story", which is supposed to be play during the sequence where the real egg is stolen, is different on the soundtrack than it is in the film.


The film was criticized for its slow start, its complex plot and a final twist that negated much of the preceding action. '']''{{'}}s Stephen Hunter said that "it all ends on one of those infuriatingly sloppy notes where, having dramatized narrative events WXYZ for us, which we have taken on good faith, it suddenly and arbitrarily delivers narrative events STUV, which completely invalidate events WXYZ."<ref name="criticism">{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/12/10/AR2005033114889.html | title = An Uneven 'Twelve' | author = Stephen Hunter | newspaper = ] | date=December 10, 2004 | access-date=May 20, 2010}}</ref> '']'' said that "while it looks like the cast is having a blast and a half, the studied hipness can get so pleased with itself it borders on the smug."<ref>Ansen, David (2004-12-13), "Style Over Substance". ''Newsweek''. '''144''' (24):63</ref> ] with '']'' remarked, "At the rate things are going, all of Hollywood will put in about a day's work on ''Ocean's Seventeen''."<ref>Puig, Claudia (2004). </ref> ''Ocean's Twelve'' was rated by '']'' as one of "The 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made".<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://ew.com/article/2007/12/22/worst-movie-sequels-ever/ | title = The worst movie sequels ever - # 16. ''Ocean's Twelve'' | magazine = ] | access-date = 2008-09-07 | archive-date = 2013-12-06 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131206224432/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1169126_11,00.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
'''Ocean's Twelve OST''' (Warner, December 7, 2004):
# ] - "L'Appuntamento" (4:35)
# David Holmes - "$165 Million + Interest (into) The Round Up" (5:43)
# ] - "L.S.D. Partie" (2:59)
# David Holmes - "Lifting the Building" (2:34)
# David Holmes - "10: 35 I Turn Off Camera 3" (2:25)
# ] - "Crepuscolo Sul Mare" (2:44)
# David Holmes - "What R We Stealing" (3:21)
# ] - "Faust 72" (3:23)
# David Holmes - "Stealing the Stock (into) Le Renard de Nuit" (4:53)
# David Holmes - "7/29/04 the Day Of" (3:11)
# ] - "Lazy " (4:30)
# ] - "Explosive Corrosive Joseph" (2:33)
# David Holmes - "Yen on a Carousel" (3:13)
# David Holmes - "Real Story" (2:55)
# ] - "Ascension to Virginity" (5:05)
# David Holmes - "Untitled" (1:02)


In a positive review for the '']'', ] gave the film three out of four stars and applauded its cleverness: "The movie takes inventory of its characters with the same droll wit it does everything else ... The movie is all about behavior, dialogue, star power and wiseass in-jokes. I really sort of liked it."<ref>{{cite news|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=December 9, 2004|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/oceans-twelve-2004|title=Ocean's Twelve|newspaper=]|access-date=September 4, 2018}}</ref> Steven Soderbergh has stated that it is his favorite of the then-three ''Ocean's'' films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a148048/steven-soderbergh-defends-oceans-twelve.html|title=Steven Soderbergh defends 'Ocean's Twelve'|author=Nissim, Mayer|date=16 November 2009|publisher=Digital Spy|access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref>
Total Duration: 54:04


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The original soundtrack to ''Ocean's Twelve'' was released by ] on December 7, 2004. ] returned to compose the music for the film and won a ] award.


Holmes' songs "Amsterdam" and "I Love Art...Really!" were released as singles and do not appear on the commercial soundtrack LP.<ref>{{cite web |title=Amsterdam/I Love Art... Really! - David Holmes Songs, Reviews, Credits AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/amsterdam-i-love-artreally%21-mw0002043179 |website=AllMusic |access-date=3 June 2020}}</ref> "The Real Story" is different in the film, which uses "Rito a Los Angeles" by Peppino de Luca, featuring part of the main riff of "]". The album also lacks "Thé à la Menthe" performed by ]<!-- INFO ON DOWNLOADS ARE NOT RELEVANT -->, used during the Night Fox "laser-dance" sequence, "Margaret" by Giuseppe De Luca, which plays as the group are escorted from the police station, and "El Capitalismo Foraneo" by Gotan Project, which plays as Lahiri cracks Matsui.
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"Ascension to Virginity" was taken from the soundtrack of ], where it likewise appeared in the ].

''All songs by David Holmes, unless otherwise noted.''
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# "]" by ], ] and ], performed by ] &ndash; 4:35
# "$165 Million + Interest" (into) "The Round Up" &ndash; 5:43
# "L.S.D. Partie" by Roland Vincent &ndash; 2:59
# "Lifting the Building" &ndash; 2:34
# "10:35 I Turn Off Camera 3" &ndash; 2:25
# "Crepuscolo sul mare" by ] &ndash; 2:44
# "What R We Stealing" &ndash; 3:21
# "Faust 72" by ] &ndash; 3:23
# "Stealing the Stock" (into) "Le Renard de Nuit" &ndash; 4:53
# "7/29/04 The Day Of" &ndash; 3:11
# "Lazy " by Yellow Hammer &ndash; 4:30
# "Explosive Corrosive Joseph" by John Schroeder &ndash; 2:33
# "Yen on a Carousel" &ndash; 3:13
# "The Real Story" &ndash; 2:55
# "Ascension to Virginity" by ] &ndash; 5:05
# "Three 8 Bar Drum Loops" &ndash; 1:02 <small>(hidden track)</small>

== Sequel ==
A sequel, titled '']'' was released in 2007, also directed by Steven Soderbergh. It is the third installment in the Ocean's franchise, and the final film in the Ocean's Trilogy. All the male cast members reprised their roles, with ] and ] joining the cast, but neither Julia Roberts nor Catherine Zeta-Jones returned.

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* {{Mojo title|oceanstwelve}}

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2004 film by Steven Soderbergh
Ocean's Twelve
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySteven Soderbergh
Written byGeorge Nolfi
Based onCharacters
by
Produced byJerry Weintraub
Starring
CinematographyPeter Andrews
Edited byStephen Mirrione
Music byDavid Holmes
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • December 10, 2004 (2004-12-10)
Running time125 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$110 million
Box office$362.9 million

Ocean's Twelve is a 2004 American heist comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by George Nolfi. The second installment in the Ocean's film trilogy franchise and the sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001), the film features an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy García, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Julia Roberts, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Vincent Cassel, Eddie Jemison, Carl Reiner, and Elliott Gould.

Ocean's Twelve was released theatrically in the United States on December 10, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $362.9 million worldwide, becoming the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2004. It was followed by Ocean's Thirteen (2007), with Soderbergh and most of the cast again returning.

Plot

Terry Benedict locates all eleven members of Danny Ocean's crew, demanding they return the $160 million they stole from his casinos plus $38 million in interest. He gives them a two-week deadline to return it or he will either get them all arrested or killed.

Short by half the amount, the group schemes to stage a heist in Amsterdam to avoid problems with U.S. authorities. Saul decides not to participate since he is too old for another grand heist. They are tipped off by an informant named Matsui about the location of the first stock certificate ever issued. After a complex series of schemes, they find the document has already been stolen by master thief the "Night Fox".

Europol detective Isabel Lahiri is called in to investigate the theft and realizes that she gave Rusty the idea of how to solve a complication of the heist with a description of a similar burglary during their earlier relationship. Surprising the group at their accommodation, she warns them they cannot beat the Night Fox or his mentor, the mysterious master thief "LeMarc", both of whom excel in the "long con", and steals Rusty's phone. She has been hunting both for years.

Danny and his crew discover that the Night Fox is François Toulour, a wealthy French baron and gentleman thief with a villa on Lake Como. Danny goes to the villa and steals Toulour's paintings. Confronting Toulour, Ocean learns that Toulour exposed their identities to Benedict (breaking the code of silence among thieves) and hired Matsui to inform the crew about the stock certificate so as to meet with Danny. Toulour is outraged when LeMarc suggested Danny may be a better thief than him, so he challenges him to steal the Imperial Coronation Fabergé egg. If Danny and his crew win, he will pay off their debt to Benedict.

The crew begin to plan an elaborate heist to swap the egg for a holographic recreation, but Toulour gives the camera recordings from his villa to Lahiri, who deduces that they want to steal the egg through an intercepted phone call to Rusty. She then captures most of the crew except Linus, Basher, Turk, and Saul.

Linus comes up with a second plan involving Danny's wife, Tess, posing as a pregnant Julia Roberts in order to get close to the egg and swap it. They are foiled by Lahiri and a coincidentally present Bruce Willis, and the rest of the group members are captured. Lahiri is told that they are to be extradited to the U.S., while Linus is chosen first to be interrogated by the FBI agent assigned to collect them. The agent is actually Linus's mother, who organizes the release of the whole gang. She points out to Lahiri that she will face consequences for forging a signature on a Europol form to obtain the necessary arrest warrants for Ocean's gang.

Sometime later, Danny and Tess return to Toulour's villa, where Toulour expresses glee at their failure. He explains that he stole the egg at night using his agility and dancing skills to evade the museum's heavy security. Toulour's celebration is short-lived when Danny reveals that his group stole the real egg while it was in transit to the museum, and Toulour realizes they were tipped off by LeMarc.

A flashback reveals that Danny and Rusty had met LeMarc earlier when he revealed his confidence trick intended to humiliate Toulour and, at the same time, restore to himself the Fabergé egg that he had stolen years ago but returned following his wife's wishes. Toulour is forced to admit that Danny won the bet and gives him the money for the debt to Benedict.

As the crew pay back Benedict and promise not to perform any more heists in his casinos, Toulour is seen in the background spying on them. Rusty takes Lahiri to a safe house that he claims has been lent to him by LeMarc. There, she is reunited with her father, who is revealed to be the man she has been pursuing for years: LeMarc.

Cast

Main article: List of Ocean's (film series) characters

The Twelve

  • George Clooney as Danny Ocean, an ex-con who leads his group in a heist across Europe
  • Brad Pitt as Robert "Rusty" Ryan, Danny's friend and second-in-command
  • Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell, a known pickpocket
  • Bernie Mac as Frank Catton, an ex-croupier
  • Elliott Gould as Reuben Tishkoff, a wealthy friend of Danny
  • Casey Affleck as Virgil Malloy, an expert mechanic
  • Scott Caan as Turk Malloy, an expert mechanic and the brother of Virgil
  • Eddie Jemison as Livingston Dell, a surveillance expert
  • Don Cheadle as Basher Tarr, an explosives expert
  • Qin Shaobo as "The Amazing" Yen, an acrobat
  • Carl Reiner as Saul Bloom, an elderly con man
  • Julia Roberts as Tess Ocean, the wife of Danny
    • Roberts also portrays herself in the film in a scene where Tess is impersonating Julia Roberts as part of the con and her character is talking on the phone with her real self.

Others

Production

The script was reworked when Julia Roberts learned she was pregnant with twins.

The film was shot in 2004 in Atlantic City, New Jersey; in St. Petersburg, Florida; and in Las Vegas at the Bellagio Hotel. Filming also took place in Chicago, Amsterdam, Paris, Monte Carlo, Lake Como (at Villa Erba in Cernobbio), Rome, and Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily. The production spent three weeks in the Netherlands; scenes were filmed in the KattenKabinet, the Hotel Pulitzer, the Haarlem railway station, and The Hague City Hall. In Paris, scenes were shot at the Sorbonne, the Australian Embassy, and the Gare du Nord. Afterwards, filming moved to Italy. The Monte Carlo Casino and the Villa Erba (on Lake Como) also served as filming locations.

Reception

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 55% based on 185 reviews, and an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "While some have found the latest star-studded heist flick to be a fun, glossy star vehicle, others declare it's lazy, self-satisfied and illogical." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

The film was criticized for its slow start, its complex plot and a final twist that negated much of the preceding action. The Washington Post's Stephen Hunter said that "it all ends on one of those infuriatingly sloppy notes where, having dramatized narrative events WXYZ for us, which we have taken on good faith, it suddenly and arbitrarily delivers narrative events STUV, which completely invalidate events WXYZ." Newsweek said that "while it looks like the cast is having a blast and a half, the studied hipness can get so pleased with itself it borders on the smug." Claudia Puig with USA Today remarked, "At the rate things are going, all of Hollywood will put in about a day's work on Ocean's Seventeen." Ocean's Twelve was rated by Entertainment Weekly as one of "The 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made".

In a positive review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and applauded its cleverness: "The movie takes inventory of its characters with the same droll wit it does everything else ... The movie is all about behavior, dialogue, star power and wiseass in-jokes. I really sort of liked it." Steven Soderbergh has stated that it is his favorite of the then-three Ocean's films.

Soundtrack

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Ocean's Twelve
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
ReleasedDecember 7, 2004 (2004-12-07)
GenreElectronic music
Ambient music
Modern Rock
Length57:05
LabelWarner Bros.

The original soundtrack to Ocean's Twelve was released by Warner Bros. Records on December 7, 2004. David Holmes returned to compose the music for the film and won a BMI award.

Holmes' songs "Amsterdam" and "I Love Art...Really!" were released as singles and do not appear on the commercial soundtrack LP. "The Real Story" is different in the film, which uses "Rito a Los Angeles" by Peppino de Luca, featuring part of the main riff of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". The album also lacks "Thé à la Menthe" performed by La Caution, used during the Night Fox "laser-dance" sequence, "Margaret" by Giuseppe De Luca, which plays as the group are escorted from the police station, and "El Capitalismo Foraneo" by Gotan Project, which plays as Lahiri cracks Matsui.

"Ascension to Virginity" was taken from the soundtrack of the 1968 movie Candy, where it likewise appeared in the epilogue.

All songs by David Holmes, unless otherwise noted.

  1. "L'appuntamento" by Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos and Bruno Lauzi, performed by Ornella Vanoni – 4:35
  2. "$165 Million + Interest" (into) "The Round Up" – 5:43
  3. "L.S.D. Partie" by Roland Vincent – 2:59
  4. "Lifting the Building" – 2:34
  5. "10:35 I Turn Off Camera 3" – 2:25
  6. "Crepuscolo sul mare" by Piero Umiliani – 2:44
  7. "What R We Stealing" – 3:21
  8. "Faust 72" by Dynastie Crisis – 3:23
  9. "Stealing the Stock" (into) "Le Renard de Nuit" – 4:53
  10. "7/29/04 The Day Of" – 3:11
  11. "Lazy " by Yellow Hammer – 4:30
  12. "Explosive Corrosive Joseph" by John Schroeder – 2:33
  13. "Yen on a Carousel" – 3:13
  14. "The Real Story" – 2:55
  15. "Ascension to Virginity" by Dave Grusin – 5:05
  16. "Three 8 Bar Drum Loops" – 1:02 (hidden track)

Sequel

A sequel, titled Ocean's Thirteen was released in 2007, also directed by Steven Soderbergh. It is the third installment in the Ocean's franchise, and the final film in the Ocean's Trilogy. All the male cast members reprised their roles, with Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin joining the cast, but neither Julia Roberts nor Catherine Zeta-Jones returned.

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