Smokin' Aces Review
Smokin' Aces (2009)
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Alicia Keys, Chris Pine, Ben Affleck.
Written By: Joe Carnahan.
Directed By: Joe Carnahan.
Smokin' Aces is an American Crime movie about Las Vegas magician and wannabe mobster Buddy 'Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven), when word gets out about Israel being a snitch and an eavesdropper, high ranking gangsta Primo Sparazza puts out a hit on him with a reward of $1 million, but he also wants his heart. Word gets out about the bounty and the race for Israel begins with participants of the highest assassination profession, as well as the less professional and more psychotic standard. This movie has FBI agents, bail bondsmen, Nazi-loving and bloodthirsty brothers, a man of all disguises and more all after this mans heart, all locked and loaded and ready to fire. With Israel hiding in the penthouse suite of the Nomad Hotel, with several ways up, this movie keeps you on the edge of your seat and gets you ready to place bets on who you think will get to him first, but the twist will twist you.
Filmed in California and Las Vegas, this gives the movie that glamour and fame feel, watching the rise and fall of a star. The sun shining, the warmth, makes it more realistic. This hotel becomes a maze, a track of obstacles and killers and the locations in all scenes fit so well in the movie, not just the glamour but you can almost smell the money, the high stakes and the mob heart beating within the walls of the movie.
The camera work in this movie is a key point, I think, in what helps the movie smash it, with beautifully dark shots and eerie-ly green tinges to scenes and over exaggerated colours. This movie is filmed with a certain structure, one that goes; bam, bam, bam. However if you look deep enough this movie has a very subtle 'trippy' abstractness to it.
The acting in this movie is as hard hitting as the movie, with kick ass characters and all casted with people you wouldn't expect. Chris Pine's part was the biggest shock for me, playing a tattoo covered, thrash metal loving, crazy redneck, yet this surprise was a good one as I found out Pine's talent is far more ranged than just traditional Hollywood film. Ryan Reynold's pulled strings on my heart with his portrayal of Agent Messner, not because of his looks, he has so much passion within this role in the second half of the movie showing so many emotions at once, it is a very high rated performance. Everyone in a whole was humorous, hard and almost invincible, setting fire to situations as the plot twists, turns and explodes.
Now this is the part in which I write what I find is a negative within the movie however with this movie I really had to think about it, I really struggled with what needed work because it's such a clever puzzle of a movie, however like I've said before no movie is perfect. I do fear the movie has too many complicated characters all in the same race, giving some characters less time than others. I feel some of the characters deserved more of a part and others may have got away with not being in the movie completely.
This movie is purely fantastic, it's a pure explosion of the blood that bines and the blood spilled that will keep you on the edge of your seat, it will confuse you, entertain you, worry you and make you cheer for criminals. It's definitely a movie I would suggest seeing because it gets the heart pumping, with a great climax. Are the good guys really more trustworthy than criminals?
My Rating: 8.5/10
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Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Alicia Keys, Chris Pine, Ben Affleck.
Written By: Joe Carnahan.
Directed By: Joe Carnahan.
Smokin' Aces is an American Crime movie about Las Vegas magician and wannabe mobster Buddy 'Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven), when word gets out about Israel being a snitch and an eavesdropper, high ranking gangsta Primo Sparazza puts out a hit on him with a reward of $1 million, but he also wants his heart. Word gets out about the bounty and the race for Israel begins with participants of the highest assassination profession, as well as the less professional and more psychotic standard. This movie has FBI agents, bail bondsmen, Nazi-loving and bloodthirsty brothers, a man of all disguises and more all after this mans heart, all locked and loaded and ready to fire. With Israel hiding in the penthouse suite of the Nomad Hotel, with several ways up, this movie keeps you on the edge of your seat and gets you ready to place bets on who you think will get to him first, but the twist will twist you.
Filmed in California and Las Vegas, this gives the movie that glamour and fame feel, watching the rise and fall of a star. The sun shining, the warmth, makes it more realistic. This hotel becomes a maze, a track of obstacles and killers and the locations in all scenes fit so well in the movie, not just the glamour but you can almost smell the money, the high stakes and the mob heart beating within the walls of the movie.
The camera work in this movie is a key point, I think, in what helps the movie smash it, with beautifully dark shots and eerie-ly green tinges to scenes and over exaggerated colours. This movie is filmed with a certain structure, one that goes; bam, bam, bam. However if you look deep enough this movie has a very subtle 'trippy' abstractness to it.
The acting in this movie is as hard hitting as the movie, with kick ass characters and all casted with people you wouldn't expect. Chris Pine's part was the biggest shock for me, playing a tattoo covered, thrash metal loving, crazy redneck, yet this surprise was a good one as I found out Pine's talent is far more ranged than just traditional Hollywood film. Ryan Reynold's pulled strings on my heart with his portrayal of Agent Messner, not because of his looks, he has so much passion within this role in the second half of the movie showing so many emotions at once, it is a very high rated performance. Everyone in a whole was humorous, hard and almost invincible, setting fire to situations as the plot twists, turns and explodes.
Now this is the part in which I write what I find is a negative within the movie however with this movie I really had to think about it, I really struggled with what needed work because it's such a clever puzzle of a movie, however like I've said before no movie is perfect. I do fear the movie has too many complicated characters all in the same race, giving some characters less time than others. I feel some of the characters deserved more of a part and others may have got away with not being in the movie completely.
This movie is purely fantastic, it's a pure explosion of the blood that bines and the blood spilled that will keep you on the edge of your seat, it will confuse you, entertain you, worry you and make you cheer for criminals. It's definitely a movie I would suggest seeing because it gets the heart pumping, with a great climax. Are the good guys really more trustworthy than criminals?
My Rating: 8.5/10
VF
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