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After crimes caused by Primo Sparazza lord, the police expect to find a convincing evidence to throw that guy to jail. But all crimes are obliterated. Buddy 'Aces' Israel, who was named the Spirit with all the skillful performances at casinos in Lake Jahoe, Nevada, used to be the closest Sparazza. Recent days, Buddy has became more unsightly. Due to the phone calls, the police know that Sparazza is willing to pay a million dollars for the thug who want to kill Buddy. And the police immediately enter the 'Witness Protection' program of FBI...
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.
Smokin Aces is 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.
January 26, 2007
eFilmCritic.com
Could've been a classic belch of grindhouse-throwback foolishness if not for Carnahan's apparent need to take his story seriously after all.
Violence is spread throughout the film, and some of it is entertaining, I have to admit. But the climax at Buddy's Tahoe penthouse is Tarantino on speed.
Did Carnahan think these sickening scenes would give Smokin' Aces a moral complexity that's generally absent from this genre? I think they make the picture seem even more morally bankrupt.
It wants to be a Tarantino-esque dark comedy about gun-slinging, substance-abusing lowlifes. But instead it's a convoluted, slap-happy, humorless bloodfest.