Ocean’s 8

You want to like Ocean’s 8. You already love Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett and their criminal sidekicks, (Rihanna, Mindy Kaling etc). You already have a built in fan base with Steven Soderbergh’s previous Ocean’s trilogy. This kind of feels a slam-dunk right? It has to be good.

Nope.

Ocean’s 8 is anything but a good film.

It’s actually really bad, boring and had me wanting to walk out an hour into the showing.

It’s not that this all-star female cast wasn’t their charming selves, which they kind of were at times but the background created for them, their characters, script and direction (Gary Ross) was poorly written and painfully boring to watch.

Because Ocean’s 8 was created from the narrative world of Ocean’s 11-13, you kind of have similar expectations for this film. Comedic performance between the two leads, playful disagreements between the side characters, an established antagonist who the crew is trying to pull the caper from or who is trying to stop them outright; comedic drama in other words.

There’s none of this in Ocean’s 8.

Instead Debbie Ocean (Bullock) is a brooding figure, Lou (Blanchett) is just a willing sidekick and their specialized crew all gets along. Cool you’re working together but that’s just bad moviemaking.   Give me some disagreements, maybe a little ego, adversity, just something that makes me wonder or care of you’ll reach your goal.

To make matters worse there’s no established adversary they’re going against. Just idiotic male bit characters who do their jobs at a 5^th grade level or are simply just oblivious to the curtains being pulled over their heads.

There’re no billionaire trying to stop them, no-nonsense security head in their way, opposition from a competing heist gang or any lawman hot on their heels.

It’s a dull way to run a script and film because as the audience we’re just watching at this point and not participating and despite the list of established stars there’s no hope or chance to make this film fun and entertaining.

The worst film I’ve seen in all of 2018.