Smokin' Aces

This movie should get high marks for its style, but everything about its style that is likable, was ripped off from Guy Ritchie. The plot is sooo out there, that I can only imagine that the writer, director... producers and... Full review

There is a new genre infesting our nation's movie theaters. With apologies to Garrison Kellior, let's call it "guy noir". Films aimed directly at the young, hip male audience. Movies that are an unholy combination of old fashioned film noir... Full review

Here's another addition to anyone's list of definitive "guy flicks". Compared to testosterone treats like Jason Statham's pair of Transporter stints, this one offers a more complicated plot, fewer explosions and chases, but more gruesome killings. Plus some fine touches... Full review

I've read some of the reviews for this movie, and I can't agree with them. I completely disagree in that I thought this was a very entertaining movie. The concept was very well thought out but it wasn't perfect, obviously.Basically,... Full review

Smokin' Aces was most certainly a bit of a magic show within itself, in that while you watched the evident plot go one way, you didn't notice the actual plot until BAM! it came out of nowhere. It wasn't the... Full review

I don't think I have seen such a mess of a film before. I found myself thinking "Will this movie pick up and get better... will something happen that will somehow resurrect this trainwreck of a film... perhaps if I... Full review

Smoking Aces is a film that tries hard, and in doing so is one that is not going to be easy to describe. The basic plot revolves around the central character "Aces" who is testifying against the mob, and in... Full review

Here we have Joe Carnaghan the writer/director of Narc? They say that human cloning has not yet taken place but this film may be the proof we were looking for. This just can't be the same Joe Carnaghan can it.... Full review

Its very hard to sum up this movie in just a few words, but if i had to, they would probably be OH MY GOD WHAT A PILE OF CRAP!Really, im not kidding here, its rubbish! This film is slow,... Full review

Ray Ray Ray....did 'Revolver' teach you nothing?? For a man who was once in a Scorsese movie, its hard to imagine he'd end up like this....sunk to depths of the lowest degree. Well hopefully the reviews this film will no... Full review

And by then, you won't care.Smokin' Aces When the movie isn't acting like a shoot-'em-up video game, it's aping anime, showering the viewer with hyperkinetic images and outrageous action while anchoring (or in this case, trying to) all the fantastical spectacle in some real universal feelings. ... Full Review

Smokin Aces should have been a rip-roaring 90-minute action flick that, no matter how bad, would still leave a big grin on your face when you left the theater. The rest of the special features dont fare as badly, including nine minutes of deleted/extended scenes, an alternate ending (Cowboy Ending), and a lengthy outtakes reel that, if nothing else, proves that Ben Affleck is the worst pool player in the world. ... Full Review

But, with so many actors given too little to flesh them out, the result is a fun roller coaster of a flick that didnt stay with me long after the credits ran.Director Carnahan and his behind the camera crew have a fine eye for action and Smokin Aces looks good, but good looks do not make a great movie. ... Full Review

The third film directed by Joe Carnahan (his last film, Narc, was a darkly evocative consideration of masculine intimacy and loyalties), Smokin' Aces offers broadly differentiated assassins who compete with reckless, ugly abandon. An odious, self-absorbed, and emotionally weak Vegas "celebrity," Buddy's the sort of stereotypical character that other gangster/cop movies set off as secondary. ... Full Review

Smokin' Aces is a hilarious, kinetic action movie that feels like the climactic hotel shoot-out in True Romance, only stretched out and sustained for two hours. He also keeps the action surprisingly clear, partly through a fluid camera approach that depends on long, elaborately choreographed takes. ... Full Review

Matt Bradshaw Nov 6th 2008 // 1:02PM Filed under: Action Anticipation for some films burns like a white hot ember, while others inspire a resounding "meh!". ... Full Article

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Joe Carnahan's carnage of a movie changes pitch back and forth between a splatter movie, a comedic spoof on gangster films and a grimy crime thriller in which sleaze, the mob and the tawdry environs of Lake Tahoe casinos fill... ... Full Article

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In some ways, "In Bruges" is the movie that last year's "Smokin' Aces" tried but failed to be.Both are hitman-centric crime films that begin comedically, then gradually become more dramatic. ... Full Article