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Rating:  -
As usual I'm not going to go over the plot as a few hundred people here have done, suffice to say this movie is actually pretty good Sat night entertainment. Some people here are being negative because of it's unrealistic story and plot holes, what movie does not have those?? Uh HELLO, this is an ACTION movie and should be judged as such, especially with a title like "Smoking Aces". I judge movies on their merits in their category, I don't put action movies up against a Drama, Romance etc. Most of the assassins were pretty interesting but of course they were not investigated in any depth. I was a little disappointed in Alicia Keys and partners characters, using the stereo-typical "Black Slang" and using the "N" word thru-out the movie, but they redeemed themselves somewhat by having the best action sequences of the film. Keys partner is a chick with a 50cal sniper rifle, and she brings the HEAT by absolutely shredding some FBI agents in the next building. There were a couple of glaring Assassin and Police mistakes, like when Keys partner goes to another room for a better line-of-site shot and leaves the door open behind her, just in time for the FBI to come and shoot her in the back. (I'm pretty sure Assassins cover their back, that's Assassin 101) Also the highly trained FBI agents know they are taking fire from a monster sniper rifle from another building, yet they stand up and respond with mere pistols, and a SHOTGUN?? Do you know what the spread is on buckshot?? If your not standing right in front of a person, all that shot just spreads out, just dumb. Common and his typical diatribe was unnecessary, to say the least but at least some Black people survived. Anyway, the story was not bad but the action was some of the best gunfight scenes I have witnessed in awhile. Absolutely kinetic. You can tell the directors were trying to copy the standard of Asian action movie gunfights, and they come close but Asian flicks of even 20 years ago (See John Woo) are still some of the greatest gun battles ever committed to celluloid. Anyway, this movie is a good action flick and should not be easily dismissed.
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Three different crews try to take out Buddy "Aces" Israel after a million dollar contract is put on his head after telling FBI secrets. While one person (FBI agent?) keeps trying to keep his cover under wraps, that quickly fails, and the FBI wants him and all his counterparts as well. Problem is that now the FBI has to deal with the million dollar hungry criminals also looking to take Israel out.
I was curious how Alicia Keys was an actress, and I've enjoyed everything Common has played in films, so that was the main reason I wanted to see it. What I did not expect was for the two entertainers to be so good at playing criminals. I thoroughly enjoyed their performances. The movie started off slow and very detailed (not the type of film you want to turn your head away from or you'll miss something, especially the climactic scene and the "make sense" scene towards the end), and although I'm not too big on action films, I like dramas. This one was impressive.
The secret was a little too confusing and I had to rewatch a scene to make it "make sense." But there was a scene towards the end with Common and Alicia Keys on the stairs that just would NEVER happen with the FBI in real life. That was very much a Hollywood moment, but I liked it nonetheless.
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Jeremy Piven is Buddy Israel, a Vegas entertainer who's in way over his head. He's about to turn state's evidence, and everybody is out to get him, from the feds who want to put him in protective custody, to bounty hunters to various mob assassins. It's a race to see who'll get to him first, and if any of them will get to him before he implodes.
Smokin' Aces is action-packed, star-studded, bullet-riddled, and over-the-top. I think that's why I liked it so much. It's the movie equivalent of riding a rollercoaster. A thrill ride. You don't have anything to show for it when it's done, but damn, it was fun while it lasted.
In other words, don't look for a deeper meaning, or even any sympathetic characters in this movie, unless maybe it's the hit woman's girlfriend. That was an affecting plot line, in a Bonnie and Clyde kinda way.
The one thing that made me scream (literally--apologies to my neighbors) was the ending. I'm not sure why one unrealistic over-the-top detail in a movie filled with them bugs me so much, but it's just that I keep thinking there are lots of people out there who think that's believable. Maybe I'm underestimating people. . . . . . . . . . Yeah, sure I am. Is that even possible? (Cynicism is me, today. Sorry.)
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How many mediocre takes on genre clichés and half-hearted performances of a ridiculous piecemeal script can you pack into an hour and a half? What sort of mess would result from an uninspired pastiche of the hooks of Ritchie, Tarantino, and Ocean's Thirteen, a hopeless attempt to borrow together the coolest movie evar? Smokin' Aces has the answers. Some times it seems like a poorly executed rip-off, other times like a poorly executed parody.
Things explode fairly nicely, in general, though also implausibly. Sadly, Ryan Reynolds' head does not.
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love this movie... good storyline, good acting and continuous action that keeps you on the edge of seat. Poetic justice ending also makes this part of any classic thriller collection.
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