How fortunate it is that the cast is so thoroughly up to the task. The script, which he wrote with Olivia Milch, doesn't have the pop of the best parts of Ocean's Eleven, so it relies heavily on its stellar cast. Director/co-writer Gary Ross, who directed The Hunger Games and Seabiscuit (and, not for nothing, is a multiple Oscar nominee), makes softer films with fewer flourishes, notwithstanding a couple of moves that salute - or, if you like, lift from - Soderbergh. Ocean's 8 does not benefit from Soderbergh's mischievous, coiled-spring direction.
