Smokin' Aces (DVD) Reviews

I'm afraid this is yet another movie that is all style and no substance. A myriad of 'characters' (which are just terrible stereotypes) whose stories overlap and twist while attempting to get at a gangster locked in a hotel room. I'm assuming the wri...(read more) ters and director (and especially the director of photography) thought they were ...

Also appears at Freeola, cheers. Let me begin by saying that my overview of the film would be that it's one that is extremely flawed, and mildly entertaining rather than the exciting amalgamation of hilarity and carnage that myself, and I'm sure many others, were hoping for. The basic set up, as I'm sure many of you know, is ...

It's been a few weeks since I have had time to watch any films but since it is the Easter holidays for me I have had a bit more time to watch some films. My friends are always giving me DVD's when they are finished with them that they will no longer watch so among this pile was the film 'Smokin' Aces'. I had heard of this being advertised a year ...

Smokin` Aces could well have been last years Revolver, a cluttered comedy crime thriller of the occasional cool and clever moment but quite simply over-run by cliché and nonsense, director Joe Canrahan here saved from Guy Ritchie's fete by sticking to a more formulaic narrative to hold it all together. Although the plot and central premise aren't ...

Buddy ‘Aces’ Israel is Vegas’ top showman, five times winner of the award in the neon lit city he is as much an entertainer as a magician, but he also has a darker side… he is in heavy with the mob, the mafia, the cosa nostra, whatever name you would like to call them by. At first he just sidled up to them and became friends with them, just for ...

As a fan of both Ben Affleck and Ray Liotta I decided that Smokin’ Aces was a film I had to see at some point. Having missed it at the cinema I finally got a chance to see it earlier today. It seemed to come and go in the cinemas within a few weeks and as I’d not really seen a lot of press about it while it was on I took this to be quite a bad ...

When a Las Vegas performer turned semi-professional crook named Buddy “Aces” Israel decides to testify against the mob, a contract quickly goes out on his head. With one last show in Lake Tahoe, Israel assembles his crew around him – and quickly attracts a growing crowd of would-be assassins, eager to net the $1million bounty on his head. But as ...

Please note this review is for the film version rather than the DVD. PLOT A magician-turned mobster, Buddy "Aces" Israel, agrees to testify to the FBI against the Mob and boss Primo Sparazza. The Mob, who place a $1 million price of Israel's head, then leave the hunt to the array of mobsters, hired thugs, and ...