Smokin Aces Blue-ray
Added 1/27/2010
I liked the movie, buy many have said it was far too violent, including some of my friends.
Ken
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Slick and bloody action (plus John Cale & Alicia Keys)
Added 1/20/2010
This decent flick deserves at least 3 stars for the fast paced and bloody action. It is light, fun and does not seem to take itself too seriously. I gave it an additional star just for the use of John Cale's Big White Cloud and the casting of the scrumptious Alicia Keys.
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Not An Original Idea In The Entire Movie
Added 1/16/2010
So I have very little to add to the other excellent one star reviews so I'm going to keep it short. I just caught this movie recently on USA and it's so derivative and unoriginal it becomes a game figuring what various movies the director stole from while watching. The plot is confusing as well, with the movie going by so fast you don't learn much about any single character and thus make zero emotional attachment to any of them. Without that attachment to any one character the thought process becomes, "Not only is this movie difficult to follow but I could care less who lives or dies."
That last sentence brings me to another point, the guy who everyone is gunning for is reprehensible. He is such an unlikeable character you hope someone offs him good. I'm not sure if the Director's intention was to have the audience hate this guy, but if so he did a great job. When you hope the main character of the movie dies when the plot predicates he lives, that is not a good sign. No, and Smokin' Aces is not a good movie either, it's actually a bad movie with lots of wasted talent. In the hands of someone like Tarantino this movie could have been something, as it is you feel like you're watching a Tarantino knockoff, and a bad one at that.
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Blu-ray took long enough
Added 1/14/2010
I've been waiting months for this to come out on blu-ray before buying it. Too many good actors to list; Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, and Ben Afleck all display the best acting of their careers. Plenty of violence of the assassin variety, don't count on too many people living until the end.
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A really bad movie
Added 1/9/2010
This is one of the worse movies I've seen in my life, to the point of making me leave the theater after its first thirty or so boring minutes.
Anyone who's able to watch it entirely, should be rewarded for being really patient.
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Smokin Aces Blue-ray
Added 1/27/2010
I liked the movie, buy many have said it was far too violent, including some of my friends.
Ken
Webmaster
[...]
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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Slick and bloody action (plus John Cale & Alicia Keys)
Added 1/20/2010
This decent flick deserves at least 3 stars for the fast paced and bloody action. It is light, fun and does not seem to take itself too seriously. I gave it an additional star just for the use of John Cale's Big White Cloud and the casting of the scrumptious Alicia Keys.
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Not An Original Idea In The Entire Movie
Added 1/16/2010
So I have very little to add to the other excellent one star reviews so I'm going to keep it short. I just caught this movie recently on USA and it's so derivative and unoriginal it becomes a game figuring what various movies the director stole from while watching. The plot is confusing as well, with the movie going by so fast you don't learn much about any single character and thus make zero emotional attachment to any of them. Without that attachment to any one character the thought process becomes, "Not only is this movie difficult to follow but I could care less who lives or dies."
That last sentence brings me to another point, the guy who everyone is gunning for is reprehensible. He is such an unlikeable character you hope someone offs him good. I'm not sure if the Director's intention was to have the audience hate this guy, but if so he did a great job. When you hope the main character of the movie dies when the plot predicates he lives, that is not a good sign. No, and Smokin' Aces is not a good movie either, it's actually a bad movie with lots of wasted talent. In the hands of someone like Tarantino this movie could have been something, as it is you feel like you're watching a Tarantino knockoff, and a bad one at that.
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