MOVIE: Smokin' Aces

Smokin' Aces is a loud hard-hitting film that has the best action scenes of the year.

With the Mob putting a 1 million dollar bounty on Buddy "Aces" Israel, a Las Vegas performer. The wildest, crazy and unwilling hit men and women come to collect on that bounty. On that note all is fair game.

Let me start off say many of the actors in Smokin' Aces has some of the best, from Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven and many more this is truly a great cast. With even in her debut to film I thought Alicia Keys did an OK job. The characters that these people play are very original from a group of brothers "The Tremors" from a weird kid that seriously needs some Ritalin. That is what set some of the characters in Smokin' Aces apart from some of the generic characters we would see from other Crime stories that use a group of different types of hit men. Out of all the actors only two stood out for me, one is Jeremy Pivien as Buddy Israel he is really convincing from begin coked up and on the brink of destruction. The other was Jason Bateman who played Rip Reed a lawyer Jason didn't have that much screen time but on the part he was in and the dialogue was hilarious.

With that said the story was a good well rounded one they did a good job at drawing out each character and gave each one a good amount of screen time. Most other stories like this while its gets towards the climax of the story the parts become clear and you can figure out what going to happen and take away the reward, this film doesn't do that it has many twists and turns that will have you on the edge of your seat. The one thing I had an issues with during the viewing was with e editing (or maybe not?) was that I'm not sure if they cut out a lot of the action sequences. For example one of the Tremor brothers had at the beginning had an axe on the back of him and has they cut between other shots the axe is gone, while I don't know if he used it or anything. Personally that is a issue that I spot, but to other I know that won't bother them and I can probably get over it after a couple more viewings.

If someone were to watch just the trailer, and not read the plot outline or the synopsis you could expect to see a lot of action in this picture. That's one thing I was disappointed about, was that it did have great action but very little of it but yet that give you more room to enjoy the story. Overall that movie is fun to watch its not going to win any awards but to sit back and enjoy this one is it. I recommend that you should go and see this film.

Here is the Smokin' Aces Trailer: