George Clooney fans might well be misled by their favourite star's prominence on the poster for this wacky, down-at-heel caper, and assume the A-lister's got a starring role. A call to the Advertising Standards Authority could be in order.

Clooney is an executive producer for this picture, but has only a strained cameo as safecracker who uses a wheelchair, advising a raggle-taggle bunch of thieves on how to pull a job. At one stage, he is less-than-hilariously disguised as a rabbi.

First-time feature directors Joe and Anthony Russo have certainly assembled a tip-top cast, including William H Macy, Sam Rockwell, Patricia Clarkson and Isaiah Washington, collectively attempting to reach for a funkily comic mood as the lowlife incompetents who believe they have a "Bellini", or perfect crime, lined up. All the ingredients are there for some likeable, knockabout fun and there are one or two moments of broad amusement. But somehow the whole thing fails to gel, and the performers don't exactly have that Ocean's-Eleven chemistry.