<a target=”_new” rel=”nofollow” rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” rel=”external nofollow” target=”_blank” href=”http://www.thefilmwall.com/oceans-twelve-2004/”>Ocean’s Twelve</a> is a 2004 comedy film that takes place after the proceedings of <a target=”_new” rel=”nofollow” rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” rel=”external nofollow” target=”_blank” href=”http://www.thefilmwall.com/oceans-eleven-2001/”>Ocean’s Eleven</a> (2001), which was a remake of the 1960 feature film of the same name. Like its predecessor, the picture used a movie star group cast.

Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) rounds up the eleven members of Danny Ocean’s (George Clooney) gang, and threatens them in order to force them to pay back the $160 million that they lifted from his Vegas nightclub from their previous heist, along with $38 million in interest, in two weeks. Collectively, the unit is short by nearly half, and is forced to stage one more heist to gather the funds. The group elect  a European aim as they are too good recognized 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 credential issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1602. Kept in a private home in Amsterdam, the cost would not be enough to settle the debt, but sufficient to extend their due date. While the group is capable to breach the security of the house, including physically lifting the house to gain the correct line of sight to disable the security codes, they find they have been crushed by one more chief robber, 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 casino heist, due to being sad that his guide Gaspar LeMarc (Albert Finney) has believed Danny was the world’s best thief. Toulour bets Danny to see who could first rob the Coronation Egg within the week, offering to pay off Terry’s balance due if Danny be the victor

As Danny’s unit prepares to lift 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, discovers the theft of the stock credential. She manages to connect the stealing to Danny’s group due to her previous relationship with Rusty (Brad Pitt) and begins to track them. As such, many of the group are prisoned in their first try to lift the Egg, leaving only Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), “Basher” Tarr (Don Cheadle), and Turk Malloy (Scott Caan) free. Linus comes up with a second plot, in which Danny’s wife Tess (Julia Roberts) is to pose as a pregnant Julia Roberts as to allow them to get close to the Egg, but the group is unintentionally foiled by the appearance 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 glee at their luck and that he had stolen the Egg at night using his quickness 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 move the Egg from Paris to Rome by way of a non-descript transporter while a show of an official convoy was made. Danny’s team was capable to switch the courier’s bag during transit with an identical looking one carrying an imitation of the Egg with no note, thus stealing the Egg before it even went on exhibition. Toulour is compelled to confess his defeat and pays the balance due owed to Terry.

LeMarc reveals in a meeting with Danny and Rusty that he had been playing a long con. LeMarc wanted to disgrace Toulour by taunting him into the challange with Danny, as good 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 troop was extradited. With Rusty’s help, Lahiri is flown in to an emotional meeting with her father. The group pays the money back to Terry, though under watch by Toulour, and then enjoys a private poker session, with Lahiri rejoining with Rusty.

The picture was released in the United States on December 10, 2004. The film received tepid 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.

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