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Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Despite a simple premise seemingly rife with possibilities, this fast-moving yet unfocused action thriller bounces around from character to character without any real through-line until it reaches a twist-ending that thinks it's more clever and important than it actually is (as it doesn't even impact anything really). 'Smokin' Aces (2006)' is a film that screams "I'm cool" at every chance it gets but rarely makes more than a whimper, especially when placed in a room with its much more effortlessly stylish peers. Unfortunately, the script features frequent expository dumps that overload the viewer, making it hard to retain any of the information, and the infrequent action is always brief and underwhelming. The movie really isn't fun and it's actually quite cringe-worthy, at times. 4/10

This movie looks "cool" and "smokin'" as its title says, but the first hint that it's not so good is the fact that non-actress Alicia Keys is one of the main stars. And she simply can't act. She does a terrible job, even though some may think she doesn't, but it's obvious, sometimes painfully obvious, that she can't act and is not a real actress. Like in the scene at the elevator, when she meets the three over the top Neo-Nazi characters. Her response is so lame and she delivers it totally unconvincingly, like she doesn't quite know what to do. And its a major mistake, casting a non-actress in a LEADING role, even in an action flick. Jeremy Piven being there doesn't do enough to save this film from being just another in a long line of unoriginal movies that are clearly a rip off of Guy Ritchie's classics like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. And one advice to the director: adding those running name titles to introduce each major character doesn't make a movie any better! Why? Because it's already been done, to death. You had it in Faculty, those two aforementioned Ritchie films and many others.Ryan Reynolds is another reason I hate this movie, because Ryan Reynolds is the most overpaid, overrated and over-you name it in the movie industry. He simply sucks and is annoying. All this movie is made of is shootout scenes and some scenes that aim at being humorous in a rather bizarre way, like the scene with the karate boy. Vladimir Kulich, not a bad actor really, is doomed to be in second and third rate movies it seems...poor guy. And here he doesn't get more than one line even, which is totally unjust, given that he has a cool voice. Really poor and unoriginal flick, I won't even call it a film because it doesn't deserve it. Action scenes are rather well shot and that is the only treat here, along with miss Keys appearing in a short skirt. The cliché of the ending only underlines the fact that this is a turkey. 3 out of 10

This is a story of a group of completely different hit men and hit woman that are hip to the street knowledge that Buddy "Aces" Israel, (five time Las Vegas showman of the year) has a 1 million dollar bounty on his head. My absolute favorite movie. I have watched this film about 20 times but only just recently started watching it like a drug or pill. I first watched this movie a couple of years after it was released. I was not a big movie fan from 2004-2008. My neighbor (female) asked it I'd ever seen "Smokin Aces" so we watched it together it was awesome but It fell off the list of my mental top 10, only to reemerge as one of my favorite movies of all time. Awesome array of characters and the actors who played the parts. Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liota, Alicia Keys, Chris Pine as the Tremor Brothers was great. The "Tremor Brothers" characters got developed into video game bad guys in the game "Borderlands" Anyway this movie is wild, bloody, sexy, fun, intricate, and moves like a missile through the hotel, detonating a huge ending that really makes Ryan Reynolds work admirable. I love Smokin aces. Oh and Ben Affleck is in it but gets wasted near the beginning, in one of the funniest parts of the movie, when Chris Pine Muppets Affleck while he is dead. Enjoy Smokin aces more than once.

Smokin' Aces is an entertaining though incredibly violent action film that tries to replicate the success that were the works of Quentin Taratino. It comes marginally close, but if one looks closely, there is a difference. The dialog is usually spot-on in a Taratino film, but it's more choppy here. That being said, there is no lack of insane action and crazy deaths. I suppose the movie did its job with all the bullets flying everywhere.Joe Carnahan's film lacks a concise plot thus making the film a little hard to follow at times. But the gist of the plot involves the Feds and these contract killers who were hired to take down a mob target and in order to get to the target first, everyone starts a war with one another.This film actually has a stacked cast. We have Ryan Reynolds and Ray Liotta as our Feds. We have Chris Pine as a leader of the Neo-Nazis. We have Ben Affleck, who could have used more screen time. We also have the likes of Andy Garcia, Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, and Chris Pine. I think everyone did a good job and it's clear that everyone had a fun time.Overall, Smokin' Aces can be described as a "B" movie. It's not bad in any sense, but the film makes no sense whatsoever. It's funny, incredibly brutal, and well-acted. If you are the one to like Taratino-style gore, then you should be pleased here. It lacks a concise story, but we really don't care with this kind of film. All I cared were those bullets. I rate this film 8/10.