Smokin' Aces (Widescreen Edition)

Buy This Item Smokin' Aces (Widescreen Edition) by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $14.99  on 9-23-2008     Slick Las Vegas illusionist Buddy "Aces" Israel isn't playing nice. Turns out, he's telling mob secrets to the FBI. After a $1 million contract is put out on him, Aces tries to pull his greatest disappearing act before a rogues' gallery of ex-cons, hit men and smokin' hot assassins tries to rub him out in this dark action comedy that takes no prisoners. Reader Reviews The mafia wants Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven), a top Las Vegas magician, dead. The FBI wants him alive. What follows is an all-star cast of actors all trying to get Aces. "Smoking Aces" is just like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", only with lots of guns and violence. Just about every character in this film is played by someone whom you have heard of or whom you should have heard of (Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Alicia Keyes, Matthew Fox and Jason Bateman all appear, to name just a few). You would think that, to attract a cast like that, the script must be pretty damn good, wouldn't you?. However, it isn't. In fact, "Smoking Aces" has one of the worst scripts that I have ever seen. The film opens with 17 and a half minutes of exposition (that is, 17 and a half minutes of people sitting around and explaining who the different characters are and what they are doing), which put my father to sleep and just left me confused, and then follows it with another 90 minutes of incoherent rubbish. Some of the action sequences are well done and interesting to watch, but they are more or less randomly inserted in the film. In many cases, I couldn't even understand what the characters were saying and I found myself drawn to Ryan Reynolds's character, simply because he was one of the few comprehensible actors in the entire film. I could excuse much of this in a piece of direct-to-DVD rubbish, but in a film that got an international cinema release, it is unforgivable, and I wonder how Joe Carnaghan (the writer and director) managed to convince so many top actors to appear in this mess. After watching this film, I swore that I would never watch another Joe Carnaghan film ever again. Do yourself a favour and don't watch this one to begin with.

Smokin' Aces (Widescreen Edition) Available from Amazon Price: $14.99 Updated on 9-23-2008.

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