Smokin' Aces
2006
*
Director: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Ben Affleck, Andy García, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Pine, Common, Tommy Flanagan, Joseph Ruskin, Alicia Keys, Taraji P. Henson, Joel Edgerton
While two FBI agents attempt to protect a sleazy magician-turned-informant Buddy "Aces" Israel, a colourful group of assassins arrive in Las Vegas to claim the million-dollar bounty on his head. Joe Carnahan's geezer gangster movie is a boring, implausible, and incoherent mess. In the first 30 minutes, he introduces about 20 characters, but there isn't one among them who is properly fleshed out and worth my while. The cast looks amazing on paper, though. Followed by a prequel Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball.
