Review of Ocean's Eight (2018) by Darryl S — 12 Jun 2018
A bland, boring, heist flick mimicking the original Ocean movies minus the chemistry, humor, semi-realistic heist logistics, violence, or nudity. It's pure G rated boredom.
Though I'm all for suspension of disbelief when watching a movie, the chain of events Bullock cooks up that have to work in perfect sequence are beyond preposterous. The previous movies at least had humorous rivalry and some action to distract from some tenuous events, but this flick is just bland from beginning to end. Whoever cooked up the heist didn't even bother to make the situation even semi plausible. No actual "bad guy" of consequence in the movie doesn't help either.
So no laughs, no violence, no sex, no drama, no chemistry, and no plot twists of any consequence either. How reviewers are giving this positive reviews is beyond me, and I can only suppose it's because of the "Girl power" message. But the movie just plain sucks, sorry.
This review of Ocean's Eight (2018) was written by Darryl S on 12 Jun 2018.
Ocean's Eight has generally received mixed reviews.
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