Smokin' Aces Critic Reviews

Even more nihilistic and confused than "Narc," and yet a lot better. It's better for some specific and interesting reasons.Read the full review

Best consumed with pizza and lots of brewskis, Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces is shamelessly and unapologetically a guy movie. It's lewd, crude and loaded with shootouts and hot lesbo action.Read the full review

A cheerfully disposable gangland freak-show thrill ride that's been directed by the gifted Joe Carnahan (Narc) as if he were trying to give the audience a seizure.Read the full review

It's kind of like a hit man's Olympics. Isn't this grown-up? In a word, no, and that's what's so much fun about it.Read the full review

While the film bristles with cinematic verve, it also is as second-hand as an antique store.Read the full review

Smokin' Aces blows some cool smoke rings until it makes the very un-cool mistake of overstaying its welcome.Read the full review

Sadly, more than an hour of this movie is given over to talking. And not the wink-wink Quentin Tarantino kind, either.Read the full review

Smokin' Aces is Tarantino lite - a vague and unsuccessful attempt to bring together a bunch of offbeat, unrelated characters in a situation where a bloody resolution is inescapable.Read the full review

The plot tangles until it seems irrelevant, the jokes can't push through the somber tone, and the most interesting moment apart from the action scenes involves one character using the corpse of one of the more famous cast members for a grisly ventriloquist act.Read the full review