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Smokin' Aces
2006
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) 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. Read more
| Starring | Nestor Carbonell, Jason Bateman, Sharon Bruneau, Jeremy Piven |
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| Director | Joe Carnahan |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Comedy, Thriller |
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Smokin' Aces
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) 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.
| Starring | Nestor Carbonell, Jason Bateman, Sharon Bruneau, Jeremy Piven, Andy Garcia, Clare Carey, Ben Affleck, Peter Berg, Brian Bloom, Alicia Keys |
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| Director | Joe Carnahan |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 49 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 49 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 49 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Comedy, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Icelandic |
| Released | DVD: 07 May 2007 Blu-ray: unknown HD DVD: 07 May 2007 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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This indulgent, luridly mounted actioner sees Hollywood golden boy Jeremy Piven horribly miscast as the crestfallen... read more on Time Out
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Full respect to Carnahan for making the tired crime genre feel fresh
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89 out of 130 people found this review helpful
Shockingly poor.
This film is painful. Considering the cast they had to work with, it's a miracle anyone could produce something as shockingly mundane and uninspired as this. To all the people who gave this 4 and 5 stars - WERE WE WATCHING THE SAME FILM? It's blasphemy to compare this to Lock Stock in any sense. It lacks any sophistication, the dialogue is functional at best, the editing and music are hectic to the point of nausea and the 'violence' is laughably tame. Whoever said this film was brutal needs to start watching some more films. In a nutshell, do not waste your rental on this film, I wish I hadn't.
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- stripelord from Dundee, Scotland
- Posted 15 Sep 2007 23:46
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16 out of 21 people found this review helpful
Smokin
Well, after the trailer sold an exciting, hip, fast action flick, we settled down to watch this with quite high expectations, only to be very disappointed after it ended.
The film had so much going for it - good actors, interesting storyline, good setting, it was just done so badly.
The major plot twist was blatantly obvious, although the 'story' itself was kind of shunted in about 30 seconds, so there was no feel as to why the events were happening - even the characters weren't 'introduced' as such, so it was very random.
I looked forward to watching a 'Snatch'/Guy Ritchie style film, and was left very disappointed by this - I would avoid this, and get Hot Fuzz instead! -
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