Smokin' Aces Critic Reviews

A Viagra suppository for compulsive action fetishists and a movie that may not only be dumb in itself, but also the cause of dumbness in others.Read the full review

The film tries to be stylish and slick, but is mostly just nasty and blood-drenched. Piven, so funny in other film roles and on TV's "Entourage," overdoes it here, and extended scenes of his debauchery grow excessive and thuddingly dull.Read the full review

Smokin' Aces is awash in ammo and carnage, but it chugs to the finish line with a tank full of sludge.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

Calling Joe Carnahan's movie heartless implies that this auteur of affectless anarchy might have meant to invest it with detectable human feelings, and failed. Better to call it heart-free.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

It's a grindhouse-inspired concoction that may not contain a shred of originality, but it is executed with unbridled bombast and glee.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

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