Movie Review: Smokin’ Aces
Yesterday night I watched a movie called Smokin’ Aces which is kinda like Ocean’s Eleven except bigger, meaner and a lot cooler. The movie has a huge cast and I mean HUGE! Here is a list of some of the most recognizable ones:
Ben Affleck
Jason Bateman
Common
Andy Garcia
Alicia Keys
Alex Rocco
Wayne Newton
Ray Liotta
Ryan Reynolds
Jeremy Piven
Peter Berg
Martin Henderson
Christopher Michael Holley
Maury Sterling
Curtis Armstrong
Matthew Fox
Nestor Carbonell
Full list of cast is [Here]
So you can see the cast list is just awesome, even Jack from Lost is in this movie.. even Herb from the old TV show Moonlighting is in this movie! The movie is about a mob guy who turned snitch and now has a 1 million dollar bounty on his head to whoever can kill him. Different assassins try to get to him and it becomes a race to see who can kill him first.
As I mentioned earlier the cast in the movie is great but the best part is a lot of the actors are playing roles that we usually don’t associate them with. For example, Ryan Reynolds plays a very serious and dedicated FBI agent but he usually plays the role of a funny and silly guy in various comedies. Nestor Carbonell, the hispanic guy on Suddenly Susan, last time I saw him he was playing the role of Batmanuel on the short lived comedy series “The Tick“. In Smokin’ Aces he plays the role of a psychotic torturer / assassin. These role changes make the movie a lot more enjoyable because its really twisted and unexpected.
The movie is a lot of fun and even though its nearly two hours long it never gets dull not even for a single second. On IMDB it got a raiting of 6.5 out of 10 but I really don’t understand why. I personally give it a 4.5 out of 5. Its loaded with action and it stars some of my favorite actors, its the perfect recipe for a successful movie.
Check out the official website [Here]
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15 Comments, add your own...
1. Marzouq | April 28th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I have been wanting to watch this movie for so damn long! Really looking forward to it! I have had the dvd for two damn weeks now! I’m now I’m going to watch the damn thing!
2. Carlsb3rg | April 28th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
average action movie, ryan reynolds sucks.
3. Qaiss | April 28th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
sound like a good movie, is it like layer cake?
4. Ronin | April 29th, 2007 at 1:47 am
the movie sucked, it went from being a serious flick to being a comedy then to a sort of drama. I was thrown off by the changes in the movie several times, one moment I was like wow that was kickass then the next I laughed my ass off then I felt a bit sad… I didn’t know what was going on… too bad, the movie had tons of potential.
5. B.Mikail | April 29th, 2007 at 10:49 am
not to forget, the in your face karate kid..Gave the movie a good spice
6. Ronin | April 29th, 2007 at 11:25 am
how could I forget the karate kid with A.D.D ;/
most annoying character ever right after kim bauer from 24 ;p
7. Saudi... | April 29th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
i saw this movie, its really nice…and the ending is the best…
8. Armani_Exchange | April 29th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Mark: what makes it miss the 1/2 star left on your 5 star score?
9. هاذر بن ماذر | April 29th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
watch bobby thay have a huge cast to
10. هاذر بن ماذر | April 29th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
watch bobby thay have a huge cast too .
11. MetallicaMad | April 29th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
i jus saw it last nite.. aint tht great
12. MetallicaMad | April 29th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
wait.. it sucked
13. Lexicon | May 2nd, 2007 at 9:03 am
i totally agree with ronin..the movie had huge potential, the 1st 15 min, then it turned to a comedy…me and my friends started laughin in the movie theatre, we couldnt believe what we were seeing
14. G7a6a | May 16th, 2007 at 7:33 am
I really wanted to love this film ! It has all the elements that made Snatch and Lock,Stock and Two smoking Barrels classics and created a genre that is kind a new and unique, and that what this director wanted to recreate with his movie but unfortunately it fell short a little bit! But still i’ll give the movie credit for bringing cool, weird characters :)
15. Pranav | March 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
The only reason i watched the movie, was because of jeremy Piven from Entourage, He is my favorate actor, and i was very impressed by his acting in the movie, after seeing him play a comedy role in entourage, Who would have though he could pull of such a serious role so well?
however, the movie was too complicated, there was too much going on and if that would have bee taken care of, the movie would have been a very big hit
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