Smokin' Aces Review

You need to learn to seperate your opinion from others. If I had taken your advice to skip it, I would have missed a film I liked quite a bit. I also liked Revolver and Domino. You should take otehr peoples opinions on movies into acount when reccomending something or not. Some people might like the movie for the exact same reasons you don't.

Hmmm, I actually liked Domino and Revolver myself in small ways for various reasons.

The point of writing a review is that it IS my opinion. It is certainly your option to take it or leave it. I'm not forcing anyone to do anything, merely recommending them not to see it for the reasons contained in the text. I'm not invalidating those reasons for people liking a film (although I'm flattered that you think so...), merely indicating what those things did for me.

I appreciate you taking the time to comment on the site, but telling me to take others opinions into account before writing a review is a bit silly. My opinion is my own and is one voice of many -- on this site, the internet, and non-electronic media in general.

Cheers.

Right. The review was written by Kurt, not someone named RottenTomatoes or MetaCritic.

As a story of questionable accuracy told by a woman of questionable sanity recovering from a preposterous dose of hallucinogens, I give DOMINO high marks indeed. The textbook example of a film folks were a bit too eager to bash, so much so that many of them missed the point completely - Tony Scott's FREDDY GOT FINGERED. REVOLVER I am VERY mixed on - parts of it are brilliant, other, more numerous parts are total crap, and the debt it owes to scores of other, superior films is a bit difficult to ignore. Certainly moments of quality in there, but deeply flawed overall and repeat viewings are downright unkind to it.

SMOKING ACES? Meh, I was excited at first, then I realized it was just the Ace of Spades. I can listen to that whenever I want.

"These guys haves some balls, they have some serious balls".-ray liotta from Smokin Aces. Sadly, the movie pushed my ballz around for 2 hours of sloppy joes editing. Theres this one character who morphs into his victims face for no reason and if there is one, i personally don't give a shit. Then theres this kid with a karate outfit with headgears and gets a boner, and talks slang? Alicia keys say's PUssy in the movie twice!!!

Revolver was so so, Richie trying to get back his former glory after the horror that was Washed Away. Domino was a piece of shit, I actually started to hate the word "Bounty hunter" half way through the film because it was uttered in almost every other sentence.
I hope this is less pretentious than Domino and manages to be fun, which is all I care about in a film like this. This director did great things with Narc so I'm keeping my hopes up.

Is that Chiaki Kuriyama?

Datura - It is Alicia Keys.

You were way, way to kind to this movie Kurt (possible residue from 'Narc', which I agree is criminally underrated). This 'film' was without a doubt one of the worst things I've ever seen with incredibly sloppy acting, directing, even brief visual effects poorly disguised by an attempted 'break-neck speed' style of frenetic editing. I love the action/exploitation genre and always thought they were movies that while rarely mentally stimulating were always fairly easy to watch and hard to screw up. 'Smokin' Aces' proved that theory dead wrong. Problems originating with the script that would have caused even the most indescerning independent hackster to reconsider a certain scene seem to not have occured to Joe Carnahan and the countless people that read this script. For shame, for shame.
By the way, Jason Bateman appeared in just one scene and managed to steal the movie, too bad it wasn't worth stealing.

I had no problem wiht you not liking the film, it just seems too often reveiwers act as though, since they don't like a film then no one will.

This is actually a harder case though, if it's true you liked Revovler and Domino. If I had written a review I would have suggested the film for those who liked those movies and perhaps not for those who didn't. .. Even after really liking the film, I haven't been able to reccomend it to anyone simply because I have no clue whether or not they would like it...

bah, just ignore me... You got the brunt of this just cause this was the first review I read after coming back from the film, and most reviews don't allow you to directly comment... I'd hate for you to remove comments or stop doing reviews...

On one hand I can see where Helu is coming from, but as Kirk as already stated, a review is one persons' sole and unique opinion. It's all the better if it isn't influenced by anyone else's personal judgement because then it wouldn't be personal (as all reviews should be) but a simple summary (See Concensus on RottenTomatoes.) There's advantages to going "some people like it because of this...but I think..." but it's not a necessity.

Trust me folks, Hot Fuzz will be the valedictorian out of the two action/comedy films. I haven't seen Hot FUzz because of course its not out in the states yet, but i can assure you that it will be everything Smokin Aces tries to imulate. A new brand of action comedy.

You have to be joking. First off, Domino rocked extremely hard. Tony Scott is the man, nuff said! Second, although Revolver wasn't the best Ritchie film ever it was still Ritchie and it was still good. Aces has things that can be compared to other movies, but what movie doesn't in this kind of generation? It reminds me of an interview i read about the director of Transporter. He said something like I know there will be people that will say that could never happen or that is humanly impossible! You know what, who cares. It was supposed to be fun and intertaining. Not every movie has to be complicated like Layer Cake or well recieved like The King and the Clown. Aces was a great film with great actors (except Alicia was kinda lame.) 5 stars!!!

This was easily the worst film of the year and yet the year is only a few weeks old, now thats saying a lot since this peice of junk movie is as confusing as the reviews The Village Voice and Rollingstone magazine gave it. Damn what could've been a fun movie turned out to be a confusing mess that had a slopping plot, slopping script, and slopply spoken bad dialog,
And let not start on Alicia Keys what the hell was she thinking when she decided to take this role. Oh I get play it play it safe like you already do with your lame ass music so you decide to don hooker gear, talk some smack and do absolutely nothing throught out this film, whoa way to go babe now you can claim your a movie star.
This film should have been a straight to DVD flick and nothing more.

This was easily the worst film of the year and yet the year is only a few weeks old, now thats saying a lot since this peice of junk movie is as confusing as the reviews The Village Voice and Rollingstone magazine gave it. Damn what could've been a fun movie turned out to be a confusing mess that had a slopping plot, slopping script, and slopply spoken bad dialog,
And let not start on Alicia Keys what the hell was she thinking when she decided to take this role. Oh I get play it play it safe like you already do with your lame ass music so you decide to don hooker gear, talk some smack and do absolutely nothing throught out this film, whoa way to go babe now you can claim your a movie star. However, the film is not her fault its the director with his A.D.D. having ass that made this a bad films that should have been a straight to DVD flick and nothing more.