Smokin' Aces

R18

2007

109 mins

Directed by Joe Carnahan
31%
62%
Action
Comedy
Drama

An uber stylish gangster film which ‘Narc’ director Carnahan boldly described as the type of film Fellini would have made,... More

An uber stylish gangster film which ‘Narc’ director Carnahan boldly described as the type of film Fellini would have made, had he made an action film. Very bold. A string of interlocking stories centre around a dying mob boss’ (Ruskin) one million dollar bounty put upon his former protégé Buddy ‘Aces’ Israel (Piven). Buddy, a Vegas magician turned gangster, has greed to testify against the mob. The FBI (including Reynolds & Liotta) attempt to protect their key witness as an array of aging and new hit men and women descend on Lake Tahoe, in a race to take Buddy out.

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Smokin' Aces | Ratings & Reviews

31_%157 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
62_%338,375 reviews
Audience score rating

"While the film bristles with cinematic verve, it also is as second-hand as an antique store..."

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Hollywood Reporter

"A fatuous piece of nasty nonsense..."

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The Guardian

"Smokin' Aces plays like the dream project of an angry, bloodthirsty Tarantino-idolising teenager aspiring to be a film-maker..."

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Sunday Star-Times

"Joe Carnahan stumbled with his first big-budget feature, "Narc," a nihilistic, incoherent thriller, but he's back with "Smokin' Aces," which is even more nihilistic and confused than "Narc," and yet a lot better. It's better for some specific and interesting reasons..."

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San Francisco Chronicle

"Best consumed with pizza and lots of brewskis, Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces is shamelessly and unapologetically a guy movie. It's lewd, crude and loaded with shootouts and hot lesbo action..."

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Rolling Stone

"Full respect to Carnahan for making the tired crime genre feel fresh, but it would have been more fun without a last-minute attempt to make it mean something..."

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Empire Magazine

"Carnahan aims for a Tarantino-style black comedy but wildly misses the mark. Instead of crafting characters to laugh with (or at, even) he indulges a sniggering schoolboy obsession with casual mutilation and silly wigs (ref. Matthew Fox). After this garish carnival of drooling lunacy, he then has the nerve to angle for pathos..."

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