Smokin' Aces
Bulldog Reviews
“Smokin’ Aces”
By: Mike Pickowicz
Here’s a movie that had an insanely cool premise on paper. The most deadly killers are all after the same guy to collect a bounty put up by a mob boss. It’s tough to live up to expectations with a plot like that, but there are the few rare movies that are able to pull it off. The question is: Does “Smokin’ Aces” deliver?
“Smokin’ Aces” is an action/thriller that promises the audience lots of blood and violence. Like a stated before, the movie revolves around a man, Buddy 'Aces' Israel, being hunted by every bounty hunter in town. Buddy, a mobster, is going to testify against his whole mob, but the Don, Primo Sparazza, won’t allow that. He offers a one million dollar bounty for the heart of Buddy, which is instantly picked up by some of the craziest professional killers around. With Buddy being held in protection at a huge hotel, he has no where to go as the large group of killers get ready to take him, and each other, out.
As cool as this movie sounds, it really saddens me to say that “Smokin’ Aces” has a bark worse then its bite. I personally loved the beginning of the movie. The set up was really cool, but it just couldn’t live up to it. One of my biggest complaints with this movie is pointless relationships. Some times, it’s good for a movie to have no real character set up. While those movies are far from award winners, they can sometimes be fun. What “Smokin’ Aces” does is create dumb, one-dimension character back stories and relationships. For most of the movie, I felt like saying “Who cares? Just get on with the killing!” Just when you want the action to continue, you get stuck with subplots that are not only unnecessary, but also kind of boring.
I didn’t, however, completely hate the movie. At times when the movie focused on the actual plot of killing Buddy, it was actually quite entertaining and suspenseful. It was also cool seeing the group of killers face off with one another using their own unique way of killing. It truly keeps you guessing what will happen to Buddy.
Ultimately, “Smokin’ Aces” just wasn’t that great of a movie. Pointless character plots riddled this movie to the point were it just made the movie worse. The action was great, but the payoff at the end just wasn’t worth it. The movie should have been a mindless killing movie, but the director wanted it to be more. In the end, that’s what hurt the movie. In my opinion, “Smokin’ Aces” is simply an average movie. I give it 2 ½ Bulldogs out of 5.
“Smokin’ Aces”
By: Mike Pickowicz
Here’s a movie that had an insanely cool premise on paper. The most deadly killers are all after the same guy to collect a bounty put up by a mob boss. It’s tough to live up to expectations with a plot like that, but there are the few rare movies that are able to pull it off. The question is: Does “Smokin’ Aces” deliver?
“Smokin’ Aces” is an action/thriller that promises the audience lots of blood and violence. Like a stated before, the movie revolves around a man, Buddy 'Aces' Israel, being hunted by every bounty hunter in town. Buddy, a mobster, is going to testify against his whole mob, but the Don, Primo Sparazza, won’t allow that. He offers a one million dollar bounty for the heart of Buddy, which is instantly picked up by some of the craziest professional killers around. With Buddy being held in protection at a huge hotel, he has no where to go as the large group of killers get ready to take him, and each other, out.
As cool as this movie sounds, it really saddens me to say that “Smokin’ Aces” has a bark worse then its bite. I personally loved the beginning of the movie. The set up was really cool, but it just couldn’t live up to it. One of my biggest complaints with this movie is pointless relationships. Some times, it’s good for a movie to have no real character set up. While those movies are far from award winners, they can sometimes be fun. What “Smokin’ Aces” does is create dumb, one-dimension character back stories and relationships. For most of the movie, I felt like saying “Who cares? Just get on with the killing!” Just when you want the action to continue, you get stuck with subplots that are not only unnecessary, but also kind of boring.
I didn’t, however, completely hate the movie. At times when the movie focused on the actual plot of killing Buddy, it was actually quite entertaining and suspenseful. It was also cool seeing the group of killers face off with one another using their own unique way of killing. It truly keeps you guessing what will happen to Buddy.
Ultimately, “Smokin’ Aces” just wasn’t that great of a movie. Pointless character plots riddled this movie to the point were it just made the movie worse. The action was great, but the payoff at the end just wasn’t worth it. The movie should have been a mindless killing movie, but the director wanted it to be more. In the end, that’s what hurt the movie. In my opinion, “Smokin’ Aces” is simply an average movie. I give it 2 ½ Bulldogs out of 5.
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