Driving by his rage and resentment upon his former assistant, Primo Sparaza, a mob boss, whose villain assistant named Aces, a weird magician who is well known with his betrayal, as he witnesses against his boss, unites up with the police and takes a large amount of money, in order to tell the police about his place.
Smokin' Aces isn't the most original endeavor, but it has enough wit, action and dramatic weight to carve out its own rightful place of honor in the crime film genre.
Smokin Aces is a Viagra suppository for compulsive action fetishists and a movie that may not only be dumb in itself, but also the cause of dumbness in others.
eFilmCritic.com
July 23, 2007
Could've been a classic belch of grindhouse-throwback foolishness if not for Carnahan's apparent need to take his story seriously after all.
Violence is spread throughout the film, and some of it is entertaining, I have to admit. But the climax at Buddy's Tahoe penthouse is Tarantino on speed.
Did Carnahan think these sickening scenes would give Smokin' Aces a moral complexity that's generally absent from this genre? I think they make the picture seem even more morally bankrupt.
It wants to be a Tarantino-esque dark comedy about gun-slinging, substance-abusing lowlifes. But instead it's a convoluted, slap-happy, humorless bloodfest.
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2017
IMDb: 7
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Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
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