Movie Review (Smokin' Aces)

At the urging of the VelveMantis from bugly.com I went to catch this movie while he and I were traveling.

This movie is about a dude, Buddy “Aces” Israel, with about ten people trying to kill him. The hit was ordered by some mob boss, and the FBI is trying to save him so he can testify against said mob boss. The above two sentences are the ONLY thing that made sense during this movie. Once the plot is formed it spirals into gratuitous violence and cussing interspersed with attempts at incredibly artsy camera work that turn out to just be annoying.

The cast in this is huge. Ben Affleck, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, and one hundred other big names making cameos , some in disguise, pop up throughout the movie. This is a recipe for disaster and the movie just sucked. There are two black female “hitmen” that love to use the words “pussy” and “nigger” for shock value. The shock wears off after the first 80 uses of those words though. The movie appeared to have potential at the beginning and the story actually starts out pretty interesting before it devolves into chaos and stupidity.

The one brilliant bright moment was delivered in 120 seconds by Jason Bateman. He absolutely stole the show using his very limited role. His lines almost appeared to be ad-lib and were delivered perfectly.

If you are tempted or conned into seeing this, stick a knife in your leg to get out of going. The injury will be far less painful than sitting through this garbage.