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7TH JAN 2009
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 Filmed presumably for the slap-happy MTV generation is Smokin Aces, a film about a collection of lowlife assassins who all get to know that a guy named Aces Israel has a large price on his head and even though he may be under the protective custody of agents (Ryan Reynolds and Andy Garcia) this isn’t going to stop ex-cons, sleaze bag vixens, and a tattooed gang with chainsaws and machetes trying to do their best to smoke him.
You simply wouldn’t believe the likes of Ben Affleck, Ray Liotta, Peter Berg, Taraji Henson and Alicia Keys would get mixed up in a film like this but ultimately the pay must have been good. This film is just blunt in all the wrong places, violent to the point where folk around me were cowering in their seats and complete with one of those risible endings where things need to be ‘explained’ almost as an apology for a sorry plot and not forgetting the necessary or rather unnecessary twist at the end. Its so late 80’s, tired, and lacking inspiration.
The biggest mystery is why director Joe Carnahan who made the impressive thriller Narc (also with Ray Liotta) should get mixed up in this but the smart money might be on the fact that he’s made this as a means to an end. Make this one cheaply for a Hollywood studio, and maybe he’ll get to do a more worthwhile project next if this one returns a reasonable profit. At least that’s the assumption and it should do, certainly in Japan. Strictly for lovers of guns or those who don’t want to think too hard!
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