OCEAN'S TWELVE

Ocean's Twelve is a 2004 comedy film that takes place after the events of Ocean's Eleven (2001), which was a remake of the 1960 picture of the same name. Like its predecessor, the film used a celebrity group cast.

Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) rounds up the eleven members of Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) mob, and threatens them in order to compel them to pay back the $160 million that they stole from his Vegas nightclub from their previous robbery, along with $38 million in interest, within two weeks. Collectively, the unit is less by nearly half, and is pushed to stage one more burglary to gather the resources. The unit pick 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 record issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1602. Kept in a private home in Amsterdam, the worth would not be adequate to clear up the debt, but sufficient to postpone their due date. While the unit is able to break the security of the house, including physically lifting the house to gain the correct line of sight to turn off the security codes, they find they have been packed down by one more main 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 nightclub robbery, due to being upset that his mentor Gaspar LeMarc (Albert Finney) has believed Danny was the world's best robber. Toulour bets Danny to see who could first thieve the Coronation Egg within the week, offering to pay off Terry's debt if Danny be the victor

As Danny's group prepares to steal the Egg during its display at a museum, Europol detective Agent Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who has long been on the trail of LeMarc and Toulour, finds the stealing of the stock record. She tries to relate the robbery to Danny's unit due to her previous courtship with Rusty (Brad Pitt) and begins to trail them. As such, many of the group are captured in their first effort 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 masquerade as a pregnant Julia Roberts as to allow them to get close to the Egg, but the group is inadvertently obstructed by the arrival 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 banished by Linus's mother Mrs. Caldwell (Cherry Jones) posing as a U.S. official.

Danny and Tess come back to Toulour's estate at Lake Como in Italy, where he discloses his excitement at their destiny and that he had stolen the Egg at night using his alertness 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 carrier while a show of an official band was made. Danny's team was capable to change the courier's backpack during transit with a same looking one carrying a replica of the Egg with no note, thus stealing the Egg before it even went on display. Toulour is forced to admit his defeat and pays the balance due owed to Terry.

LeMarc discloses in a meeting with Danny and Rusty that he had been playing a long con. LeMarc wanted to humiliate Toulour by taunting him into the bet with Danny, as well 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, discovered to be Lahiri, which could only be done after Danny's team was banished. With Rusty's help, Lahiri is flown in to an emotional meeting with her father. The unit pays the money back to Terry, though under watch by Toulour, and then enjoys a private poker session, with Lahiri rejoining with Rusty.

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