Smokin' Aces

Name: Smokin' Aces
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: January 26, 2007
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta, Ryan Reynolds

2007

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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: January 26, 2007 | R

Starring: Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta, Ryan Reynolds

Summary: In a series of interlocking tales of high stakes and low lifes, Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel (Piven) -- a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn states evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces intoIn a series of interlocking tales of high stakes and low lifes, Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel (Piven) -- a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn states evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody under the supervision of two agents (Reynolds and Liotta) dispatched to Aces' Lake Tahoe hideout. When word of the price on Ace's head spreads into the community of ex-cons and cons-to-be, it entices bounty hunters, thugs-for-hire, smokin' hot vixens and double-crossing mobsters to join in the hunt. With all eyes on Tahoe, this rogues' gallery collides in a comic race to hit the jackpot and tub out Aces. (Universal)… Expand

Director: Joe Carnahan

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 109 min

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Owen Gleiberman

A cheerfully disposable gangland freak-show thrill ride that's been directed by the gifted Joe Carnahan (Narc) as if he were trying to give the audience a seizure. Read full review

Chris Kaltenbach

It's hard to figure where it's going, and when the movie's over, it's even harder figuring where it's been. But the careening roller-coaster ride calling itself Smokin' Aces is such a hoot to be on, who really cares? Read full review

Jack Mathews

There's no question Carnahan has an eye for composition, an ear for dialogue and a sense of pace that, if put to better use, could make an audience beg for relief. But the characters in Smokin' Aces are about as lifelike as the occupants of vehicles destroyed in a car-safety test. Read full review

Premiere Ethan Alter

To be fair, Smokin' Aces isn't a complete train wreck. Carnahan stages a handful of strong action set-pieces, most notably a close-quarters elevator shoot-out involving Liotta and Flanagan, that are a blast to watch. Read full review

Michael Phillips

This film was not based on a video game, but that's the vibe and the aesthetic at work here: YEAH! KILL!, followed by a few muttered expressions of the horror, the horror. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

In the hands of the formerly promising director Joe Carnahan, this stylish, nihilistic, hugely derivative mash-up of Tarantino and Guy Ritchie (before wife Madonna ruined his career) is fun for roughly half an hour. Read full review

David Edelstein

Again and again the killers linger sadistically over the dead or dying bodies of the people they've dispatched. 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. Read full review

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JustinR.

Apr 22, 2007

This movie will rock your socks off, this movie is nothing but action. [***SPOILER***]The way it ended was insane, all these people die just because of a simple heart transplant, I mean if that isn't crazy enough for you then I don't know what is.

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ChrisB.

Apr 20, 2007

This movie was incredible. It had some nice, intense parts, a good amount of violence, and an awesome story. I thought it was done very well, and that there wasn't anything wrong with it. There was a nice amount of characters, so the story never got boring. I can't possibly see This movie was incredible. It had some nice, intense parts, a good amount of violence, and an awesome story. I thought it was done very well, and that there wasn't anything wrong with it. There was a nice amount of characters, so the story never got boring. I can't possibly see how anyone would think the action was stale? Cops, Assassins, Mafia, you really can't go wrong. Definitely a must rent.… Expand

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ZelkZ.

Jan 29, 2007

The kind of movie critics would hate but their always wrong anyway. Not the best story but very entertaining.

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DonaldK.

Feb 13, 2007

If the film was supposed to be moral "(the moral being don't kill"), it missed its mark big time. But as an action-packed film with dialogue, it works. It jumps around from character to character and though you'd like more lines from each one (well, some more preferably than If the film was supposed to be moral "(the moral being don't kill"), it missed its mark big time. But as an action-packed film with dialogue, it works. It jumps around from character to character and though you'd like more lines from each one (well, some more preferably than others), the end kind of bottoms out by just concluding that they were father and son by introducing the John Heller character early with the "he plans to change faces multiple times" and guess what? the mob boss had 15 operations! okay, from a plot standpoint, the film gets kind of cheesy. But face it, the story line itself isn't going to win an Oscar (nor probably its director anytime soon, not that I have anything against him, but his first film, Blood, Guts, and Octane doesn't exactly suggest best picture), but hell, it was damn good and fine acting, and it entertained the hell out of me for about 60-80% of the movie. So the film wasn't bad. And for that, I credit.… Expand

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Tyranian

May 1, 2020

An interesting mess, combining the brilliant and the incoherent. Well-acted.

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nafees

May 4, 2022

Promising plot, destroyed by terrible script and directing. Has potential, but made too complicated by bad storytelling and sub-par scene sequence.

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Jan 27, 2007

Nothing that we haven't seen already many, many times!! Complete waist of time and money!

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