On my scorecard, this makes three for three. Star power remains an important factor, although some of it seems looks less interested than in earlier installments. A smart-enough caper helps, too: Even as someone who enjoyed , when I reread its plot on Wikipedia, I confess that it didn t ring a single bell.
But with Al Pacino looking vaguely confused, Ellen Barkin over-vamping, and Clooney being Clooney, the truth is these films greatest asset is its director. Shoots the hell out of everything. Got a great sense of pace and suave sophistication.
And he s constantly trying new things. This trilogy is a little too proud of itself, but can you think of a series of studio pictures more grownup? More adult in their sensibility?
They don t make em like they used to, but, honestly, who made a big-budget sequel this idiosyncratic back then? For a movie that has no good reason to exist, Soderbergh makes us suspend judgment long enough. It s the movie s best swindle.
The Apples in Stereo, On my scorecard, this makes three for three.
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