Smokin Aces
Driving by his rage and resentment upon his former assistant, Primo Sparaza, a mob boss, whose villain assistant named Aces, a weird magician who is well known with his betrayal, as he witnesses against his boss, unites up with the police and takes a large amount of money, in order to tell the police about his place.
15 August 1972, Berkeley, California, USA
25 January 1981, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
19 July 1969, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
8 October 1974, Auckland, New Zealand
26 August 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 April 1924, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
6 December 1991, New York City, New York, USA
14 July 1966, Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
November 03, 2012
A guilt-free return to the kind of stylish action thrillers that rely on strong characters just as much as they do carnage.
July 23, 2007
Could've been a classic belch of grindhouse-throwback foolishness if not for Carnahan's apparent need to take his story seriously after all.
January 31, 2007
We just sit there numbly, awaiting the next sensation and trying, without notable success, to comprehend the preposterous backstory.
June 25, 2007
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.
January 30, 2007
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.
February 03, 2007
Not a fresh idea emerges from this risible exercise in muscle-car camerawork, squib-crazy shoot-outs and self-admiring pyrotechnics.
January 26, 2007
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 30, 2007
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.
May 05, 2008
The best Tarantino riff of 1994.
September 22, 2007
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.
July 11, 2007
A great ensemble cast, along with excellent direction makes this a gem worth the watch...
