Review- Oceans 8 (2018)

 I love a good Heist film especially when it stars actors I love and I was excited about this spin-off of the Oceans Trilogy mostly because it stars Rihanna, Sarah Paulson, Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham-Carter and together with Mindy Kaling, Sandra Bullock, Akwafina and Ann Hathaway, they pulled off their heist and gave us a worthy popcorn flick. Upon her release from prison, Danny Ocean's estranged sister Debbie attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City's star-studded annual Met Gala and steal a necklace worth $150 Million.

The casting of this film is almost perfect and it had a lot of glamorous scenes of stars at the Met Gala but I felt like they would have done more with the plot. I wasn't expecting mind blowing cinematography or an Oscar worthy plot but something not worth forgetting few hours after stepping out of the movie theater. I loved the acting and chemistry between these eight beautiful ladies but there was literally no character development and having no villain made it less riveting. We have a very fine cast of diverse females, why not utilize their skills to the maximum level? A heist can't be that easy to achieve and I wish they had at least one villain (maybe among the eight ladies) to spice up the story a bit. I was expecting some twist at the end but there was nothing. They didn't get into any trouble, nobody was caught and they never truly had any major challenges during the heist. Nothing our dear Nine Ball (Rihanna) couldn't fix with the click of a button on her computer. Even with all the lows, I can't deny the fact that I still found it entertaining. Oceans Eight is definitely not going to be on any Best Movies list but it'll definitely pass for one of summer's best.