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In these interlocking tales of high stakes and low life's, Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy 'Aces' Israel (Piven) - a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn state's evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody-under the supervision of two agents (Reynolds and Liotta) dispatched to Aces' Lake Tahoe hideout. When word of the price on Aces' head spreads into the community of ex-cons and cons-to-be, it entices bounty hunters, thugs-for-hire, smokin' hot vixens and double-crossing mobsters to join in the hunt. With all eyes on Tahoe, this rogues' gallery collides in a comic race to hit the jackpot and rub out Aces.
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Screen Format: Color
Language: English
CRITIC REVIEWS
Lew Irwin
Universal might have saved its money on critics' screenings of Smokin' Aces, starring Ben Affleck, Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta and Andy Garcia, for all the good the reviews will do the film. Jan Stuart in Newsday calls the movie "an exercise in excess gone over the top. It's so punch-drunk with antisocial behavior you don't know whether to laugh or write to the MPAA." Eleanor Ringel Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes that it's "an awkward pelvic thrust of a movie that wishes it knew more cool moves than it actually does." Then there's A.O. Scott's review in the New York Times which describes the movie as "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." On the other hand, there's Bill Zwecker's review in the Chicago Sun-Times, who concludes: "This nonstop, brutal thriller, with a nice twist at the end, is a winner all the way." And Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post wraps up his review this way: "All in all, another thoroughly enjoyable step on the road to damnation."
Reviewed by: eccedaxdux on 6/3/2007 5:51:36 PM
detective thriller characters, played straight, really do not splice well with the surreal shock of a blue velvet... and this movie is clumsily divided between the two genres...affleck and garcia sleepwalk through equally undemanding parts...nice to see ryan reynolds again...am i imagining a reprise of the cop used in cop/elevator scene of silence of the lambs, in a second cop/elevator scene?
Lew Irwin
Universal might have saved its money on critics' screenings of Smokin' Aces, starring Ben Affleck, Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta and Andy Garcia, for all the good the reviews will do the film. Jan Stuart in Newsday calls the movie "an exercise in excess gone over the top. It's so punch-drunk with antisocial behavior you don't know whether to laugh or write to the MPAA." Eleanor Ringel Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes that it's "an awkward pelvic thrust of a movie that wishes it knew more cool moves than it actually does." Then there's A.O. Scott's review in the New York Times which describes the movie as "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." On the other hand, there's Bill Zwecker's review in the Chicago Sun-Times, who concludes: "This nonstop, brutal thriller, with a nice twist at the end, is a winner all the way." And Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post wraps up his review this way: "All in all, another thoroughly enjoyable step on the road to damnation."
Reviewed by: eccedaxdux on 6/3/2007 5:51:36 PM
detective thriller characters, played straight, really do not splice well with the surreal shock of a blue velvet... and this movie is clumsily divided between the two genres...affleck and garcia sleepwalk through equally undemanding parts...nice to see ryan reynolds again...am i imagining a reprise of the cop used in cop/elevator scene of silence of the lambs, in a second cop/elevator scene?
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Reviewed by: eccedaxdux on 6/3/2007 5:51:36 PM
detective thriller characters, played straight, really do not splice well with the surreal shock of a blue velvet... and this movie is clumsily divided between the two genres...affleck and garcia sleepwalk through equally undemanding parts...nice to see ryan reynolds again...am i imagining a reprise of the cop used in cop/elevator scene of silence of the lambs, in a second cop/elevator scene?
(Read More Customer Reviews...)Reviewed by: imkaiko on 5/31/2007 2:33:00 PM
LOVED IT! Jeremy Piven and common's acting was trendmenous. beginning was a little slow. the violence might be disturbing to some. loved the movie overall. ben affleck was only in the movie briefly.
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