Aside from the editing and cinematography, Ocean’s 13 ranks up there with one of the worst films I’ve seen this year. Relying strictly on the star power of these three guys prancing around in expensive suits (who admittedly 
have done good work in the past, both in their professional lives and personal lives, Clooney for films like Syrianna and raising public awareness of global issues like Darfur, Damon for the Bourne movies and his contributions to charities like ONE, and Pitt for his role in Fight Club and for nailing hottest/craziest chick on the planet…yes I’ve seen Team America, eat me), Soderbergh substitutes the kinds of celebrity in-joke gags I imagine Hollywood wannabees tripping balls on cocaine find amusing, for plot and reality semblance. I’m supposed to believe they bought and buried not one, but two tunnel boring machines (TBMs), one being one of the drills used to dig part of the Chunnel (which looks identical to the first TBM they break at the end of the first act to get useless Andy Garcia back in the sequel, the real Chunnel drill being about three times the size of the one used in the film…and residing in France)? How ’bout the ridiculous side-plot they dedicate a good twenty minutes to involving a Mexican border factory that two of the whitest kids in Hollwood infiltrate, subsequently instigating a riot to secure higher wages for the workers, only to then sabotage the same factory, presumably resulting in its closing and all those migrant workers we were supposed to care about losing their jobs. Thanks a lot Aflac.
The one character they brought back from the second crappy installment that I was hoping would be used at least a little bit 
more was Toulour, cause he kicks major ass in every French film he’s ever been in, but loses all ass-kickery in translation to American cinema. I mean hell, the guy is married to Monica-freaking-Bellucci fer-christ-sakes, you can do more with him than having him jump off a building and curse in French. Don’t believe me? Check out Crimson Rivers some time, about a minute twenty into this clip Vincent Cassel kicks a guy in the face, sickness! Did they let Vincent Cassel kick anyone in the face in Ocean’s 13? Hell no. If I had made Ocean’s 13 it would have starred Vincent Cassel and the plot would have revolved around him hunting down Steven Soderbergh to kick him in the face for wasting two hours of my life on this chick flick.
(ps. Notice how I did not make one gay joke in a post about Ocean’s 13, that’s self-restraint right there buddy)
