Movie review: Ocean's 8 scores on star cast but loses out on weak content

Ocean's 8 is in parts enjoyable and watchable, but its visual appeal fails to make up for a lack of meaty content - it is devoid of any inventiveness or complexity

“A Him gets noticed, a Her gets ignored. And for once, we’d like to be ignored.”

This is Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) to Lou (Cate Blanchett) as the two try to put together the heist team in Ocean’s 8. That is not the only reason why the film, a spin-off from the wildly popular Ocean’s trilogy, chose to opt for an all-female cast. For once, the makers wanted to see what a non-male heist film would look like. So they brought together a bunch of ravishingly good-looking women and asked it to pull off a job, simply because they wanted to