Smokin' Aces
Universal Pictures | Release Date: January 26, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
15
Negative:
8
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38
New York PostLou 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
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Based on this outing, writer-director Joe Carnahan (Narc) can't tell a story worth a damn--especially not a complicated mishmash like this one. Read full review
30
SlateDana Stevens
Smokin' Aces is awash in ammo and carnage, but it chugs to the finish line with a tank full of sludge. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The film tries to be stylish and slick, but is mostly just nasty and blood-drenched. Piven, so funny in other film roles and on TV's "Entourage," overdoes it here, and extended scenes of his debauchery grow excessive and thuddingly dull. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
The hyper-stylized violence, for instance, isn't nearly as senseless as the narrative bits in between. And the ''twist'' employs the same sleight-of-hand as "The Usual Suspects." Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Calling Joe Carnahan's movie heartless implies that this auteur of affectless anarchy might have meant to invest it with detectable human feelings, and failed. Better to call it heart-free.
10
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
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. Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)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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