The best and the funniest parts of that movie had to do with him. Mostly the one-liners and the little background comments he makes.

While I enjoyed the movie in general, I think it's biggest problem was the script really didn't give a lot of the characters anything to do. As in, taking Bernie Mac out of the equation half an hour in, then taking out nearly everyone else before the third act.

I liked the European setting, but the heists and the set-ups weren't as interesting as in the first and the third. Cassell was i-ight, but not really that compelling of a villain. I'll allow it, because the villains were the weak points of all three movies (though I thought Garcia and Pacino were both inoffensive).

So while I agree that it got a bad rap for being awful, I still prefer the other two.