Storyline
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
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Cast
Andy García, Joe Drago, Jason Bateman, Maury Sterling, Kevin Durand, Ray Liotta, Tommy Flanagan, Common, Jeremy Piven, Martin Henderson, David Proval, Lorna Scott, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Curtis Armstrong, Jeff Habberstad, George Fisher, Peter Berg, Joel Edgerton, Taraji P. Henson, Mike Falkow, Chris Pine, Joseph Ruskin, Alex Rocco, Wayne Newton, Christopher Michael Holley, Matthew Fox, Alicia Keys, Nestor Carbonell, Vladimir Kulich
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Reviews
75
Entertainment Weekly
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.
75
Rolling Stone
Best consumed with pizza and lots of brewskis, Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces is shamelessly and unapologetically a guy movie. It's lewd, crude and loaded with shootouts and hot lesbo action.
63
Someone should check Joe Carnahan for performance enhancement drugs. Smokin' Aces, the wild ride of a movie he scripted and directed, is so pumped up, manic and mayhem-packed that it practically shoots sweat off the screen.
60
The New Yorker
In 2002, Carnahan made an intense and violent little cop film, "Narc," with Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. He seemed to have absorbed the influences of John Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese and come up with a style of his own. I was a fan of that movie, but Smokin’ Aces feels like Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" pushed much further along into lethal absurdity.
60
Variety
Smokin' Aces blows some cool smoke rings until it makes the very un-cool mistake of overstaying its welcome.
