Smokin' Aces (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Joe Carnahan
Actors: Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Joseph Ruskin, Alex Rocco
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  134 reviews
Sales Rank: 4960
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D61032266D
UPC: 025193226624
EAN: 0025193226624
ASIN: B000O77SF4
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
Release Date: April 17, 2007
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Product Description
When a Las Vegas performer turns state's evidence againt the mob, a one million dollar contract is put out on his life with a vast group of characters eager to collect.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 4-SEP-2007
Media Type: DVD
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A frantic and frequently amusing cocktail of Tarantino cool and Hong Kong bullet ballet, Joe (Narc) Carnahan's Smokin' Aces delivers some inspired moments of action and dark comedy in its dizzying-comic book plot about a rogue's gallery of killers on the hunt for a mob informer. At the core of Carnahan's bloody shaggy-dog tale is Buddy Israel (Jeremy Piven, offering a more desperate take on his standard hustler persona), a Vegas magician who's turned informant against the mobsters who have treated him as their personal entertainment. Wishing to close Buddy's overactive mouth permanently, the mob capo puts a bounty on the two-bit showman's head, and a horde of hitmen descends on Buddy's digs to claim the prize. The unholy crew of gunmen offer the movie's most inspired (and outlandish) moments, with R&B singer Alicia Keys (as a cool, Foxy Brown-esque assassin), Nestor Carbonell (as a torture-minded sadist), Ben Affleck and Peter Berg (low-key bail bondsmen) and Chris Pine (the leader of a trio of semi-savage brothers) among the more memorable villains. Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, and Andy Garcia represent the other side of the coin as FBI agents determined to get to Buddy before the legion of doom, and the clashes between both factions produce some eye-popping gunplay. If there's any complaint to be made about Smokin' Aces, it's that the tone shifts between action-drama and hipster comedy feel forced (Carnahan struck a firmer balance between the two in his 1998 indie effort, Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane), but the performances and shootout set pieces, as well as Carnahan's hyperactive camera work, do much to make those transitions palatable. Eagle-eyed audience members will note the presence veteran scene stealers Curtis Armstrong (Ray), David Proval (The Sopranos), and Alex Rocco (The Godfather's Moe Green) in supporting roles. -- Paul Gaita
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 Smokin Aces Blue-ray January 27, 2010
Kenneth J. Mccormick
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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) January 20, 2010
J. Nichols (NorthEastUSA)
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.
 Not An Original Idea In The Entire Movie January 16, 2010
YJM (Somewhere In The South)
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.
Blu-ray took long enough January 14, 2010
M. Fisher
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
A really bad movie January 9, 2010
Cristian (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2 out of 28 found this review helpful
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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