Smokin' Aces (Blu-ray + DVD) R
Nobody gets away clean.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 28, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ben Affleck & Jeremy Piven | |
Performer: | Jason Bateman, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Alicia Keys, Common, Peter Berg, Brian Bloom, Sharon Bruneau & Ryan Reynolds | |
Directed by | Joe Carnahan | |
Screenplay by | Joe Carnahan | |
Composition by | Clint Mansell | |
Produced by | Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin & Eric Fellner | |
Director of Photography: | Mauro Fiore |
Entertainment Reviews:
Carnahan manges to get over a dozen narrative plates spinning and keep them there, building an accelerated hyperactive narrative...
Film Comment
Rating: 1/6 --
Not a fresh idea emerges from this risible exercise in muscle-car camerawork, squib-crazy shoot-outs and self-admiring pyrotechnics.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
A poor effort, packed with sub-par Tarantino-esque anecdotes.
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The List
Rating: 3/5 --
The best Tarantino riff of 1994.
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CinemaBlend
It wants to be a Tarantino-esque dark comedy about gun-slinging, substance-abusing lowlifes. But instead it's a convoluted, slap-happy, humorless bloodfest.
USA Today
We just sit there numbly, awaiting the next sensation and trying, without notable success, to comprehend the preposterous backstory.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Violence is spread throughout the film, and some of it is entertaining, I have to admit. But the climax at Buddy's Tahoe penthouse is Tarantino on speed.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
Fresh from his success with HBO's ENTOURAGE, Jeremy Piven gives his career a further boost by taking the lead role in director Joe Carnahan's (NARC) fast-paced thriller, SMOKING ACES. Piven plays Buddy "Aces" Israel, a former Vegas performer who has holed up in the penthouse suite of a Lake Tahoe casino after what seems like half the planet decides they want him dead. The reason for this bloodlust stems from Israel's dalliances with the mob, who have put a $1 million price tag on his head after discovering he is about to tell all to the feds. The only people who don't want to put a premature end to Israel's life are two FBI agents, played by Ryan Reynolds and Ray Liotta, and their boss, Andy Garcia. As various assassins attempt to put an end to Israel's pitiful existence, a parade of celebrity cameos ensues, including Alicia Keys, Common, Ben Affleck, and Jason Bateman.
Carnahan soaks the screen with vivid primary colors, lots of flashy set pieces, and plenty of guns and violence as his movie thunders from one explosive scene to the next. The shooting style, script, and acting are all highly indebted to Quentin Tarantino's early works, and the impressive ensemble cast will ensure plenty of PULP FICTION comparisons. Standout performances come courtesy of Piven and Liotta, with the former reveling in a character surrounded by burly bodyguards, cheap hookers, and a blizzard of cocaine as he sweats and paces around his penthouse hideout, ultimately awaiting either freedom or death as the movie nears its spectacular finale.
Carnahan soaks the screen with vivid primary colors, lots of flashy set pieces, and plenty of guns and violence as his movie thunders from one explosive scene to the next. The shooting style, script, and acting are all highly indebted to Quentin Tarantino's early works, and the impressive ensemble cast will ensure plenty of PULP FICTION comparisons. Standout performances come courtesy of Piven and Liotta, with the former reveling in a character surrounded by burly bodyguards, cheap hookers, and a blizzard of cocaine as he sweats and paces around his penthouse hideout, ultimately awaiting either freedom or death as the movie nears its spectacular finale.