A great ensemble cast, along with excellent direction makes this a gem worth the watch...
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07/11/07
Smokin' Aces (2007)
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Reviews Counted:148
Fresh:40
Rotten:108
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: A violent mess of a movie, Smokin' Aces has some Quentin Tarantino's style but not much of his wit or humor.
Theatrical Release:12-01-2007
Synopsis: Fresh from his success with HBO's ENTOURAGE, Jeremy Piven gives his career a further boost by taking the lead role in director Joe Carnahan's (NARC) fast-paced thriller, SMOKING ACES. Piven plays... [More]
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Andy Garcia
Director: Joe Carnahan
Reviews for Smokin' Aces
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.
06/25/07
An uneven, overly stylized mess that wants to recall Quentin Tarantino, but which only mines the glitz, not the depth or the sharpness of Tarantino's dialogue.
05/03/07
It's flashy and feels hip, but I wonder if it's all just a smokescreen much like the one in the film's plot.
04/29/07
It's instantly engrossing, stays great for about 45 minutes and good for another 20, then begins collapsing under the oppressive weight of taking itself very, very seriously.
04/27/07
It's never boring for a minute, and it's a ridiculous, fun waste of time.
04/16/07
The biggest and most unfortunate problem with Smokin' Aces is the complete lack of anyone to root for or even against.
03/24/07
does little more than ape some vague Quentin Tarantino/Guy Ritchie cinematic style
03/07/07
A list of players doesn't quite indicate the pile-on of firepower that will converge for the final showdown, or the convolutions of plot that draw everyone to the same location.
02/24/07
Will you enjoy Smokin' Aces? That depends on your acceptance of the following: several pages worth of four letter words; huge bloody body counts; and nudity that is nothing more than set decoration. That's a call you will have to make for yourself.
02/23/07
Trying too hard is the death of cool in any genre -- especially a dead one -- and Smokin' Aces has all the sophisticated plotting of a splatter-happy video game.
02/21/07
Every criminal has to have a quirk. That guy's a cross-dresser. He's a master of disguise. They're Nazis. She's a lesbian... Ridiculous cretins like these will make you long for the thoughtful characterizations of Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe.
02/10/07
Repellant for reasons that would take a week to list, but the biggest one is that it tries to revive a film movement that not only should stay buried, but should not have lived in the first place.
02/08/07
It wants to be so many things at once that it never truly finds its focus, and yet it manages to be quite a blast anyway.
02/07/07
Frenetic to the point of assaultive, Smokin' Aces resembles nothing so much as last year's Lucky Number Slevin, except with even more plot reversals, most of which don't hold up under scrutiny.
02/05/07
There is a little bit of something for everyone in this one. .
02/04/07
...by the time the guns start blazing, ...the body count (and the surprise order) really hits home; you actually give a crap whether these people die or not.
02/03/07
Not a fresh idea emerges from this risible exercise in muscle-car camerawork, squib-crazy shoot-outs and self-admiring pyrotechnics.
02/03/07
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02/03/07
Top CriticIf you like blood, this is a film for you, but otherwise, it's not nearly funny or gory enough to satisfy. Fugeddaboutit.
02/03/07
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