Writer/director Joe Carnahan attempts to go for a hip, violent and witty crime film in Smokin' Aces but just narrowly misses the mark.
It's a bit of a mess, lacks any sort of interesting character developmentss and never fully realizes it's own potential but can be pretty damned entertaining at times. It's got a huge cast which keeps you guessing who's going to bite the bullet next and makes for a pretty intense finale but it just simply tries to hard to be "cool and shocking".
2½ white trash karate kid boners out of 5
3 comments:
Watched this when it came out. No desire to revisit it. 2½ sounds about right.
Some of the promotional art was cool. Especially the coloured ones.
It may be telling of the film that I have seen it a few times and the only thing I remember about it is Jeremy Piven ranting about jizz.
I really liked Chris Pine, Kevin Durand and the other guy.
They seemed oddly out of place even for a film like this though.
Another example of the film trying to hard to be "hip".
I see Vinnie Jones is in the 2nd one. Still don't think it's enough to get me to watch it though.
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