Fast-Forward Theatre: Smokin' Aces
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The director/writer of "Smokin' Aces" apparantly thought that a Quentin Tarantino-esque movie should be listed in his filmography. And I imagine him sitting down and checking a list for the "cool" things to make this a cult movie.
It's all there - the fast cuts, the bright colours, the lightning, even the music (because every pseudo-Nazi listens to Motörhead). The "actors" that are too cool for a first and a last name. Ben Affleck playing pool.
Sadly, this movie ends up trying too hard.
Maybe it's the plot that could be told in ten minutes, which is why everyone keeps repeating the same basic information over and over again. Maybe it's the amount of assasins, bounty hunters, FBI agents and you name it who all do the same.
A total of 13 people hunt for Buddy "Aces" Israel, who's hiding from a mobster boss that set out a bounty for his heart.
And apart from a lot of shooting, and misogynistic remarks andseriously not cool dialouge, that's it. Including a pseudo-twisted ending, in which we find out that the mobster boss is actually a former FBI agent, who switched sides and had a lot of cosmetic surgery and is, shock of all shocks, the father of Buddy Israel.
Why one would want the heart of a drug-addicted alcoholic with probably at least one venereal disease is beyond me, but fits perfectly the pointlessness of the whole movie.
But at least, we get electric blue eyes in front of a electric blue sky.
The Tremor Brothers are the perfect example for the headache-inducing "characterisation" of the movie. Neonazis, that only grunt at each other, listen to Rammstein and have a serious oral fixation?
And the scene at the end? Proves that our boy can die with a nice pirouette, but apart from that, I fail to see the point. Other than that "the good boys always win", which steers heavily away from the Tarantino-feel we are supposed to get.
I recommend you just jump to that scene in which Darwin Tremor "talks" to Jack Dupree, for two reasons.
One, Ben Affleck does not say a single word, and two:
Of course, you can watch the rest of the movie too, while you're at it.
Find it here atriversidepub.
Thanks for your time,
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erynwen (who watches and reviews movies a bit differently than others *gg*)
jim_and_bones verfasst, aber kann es nicht posten (argh), also parke ich es hier ;)The director/writer of "Smokin' Aces" apparantly thought that a Quentin Tarantino-esque movie should be listed in his filmography. And I imagine him sitting down and checking a list for the "cool" things to make this a cult movie.
It's all there - the fast cuts, the bright colours, the lightning, even the music (because every pseudo-Nazi listens to Motörhead). The "actors" that are too cool for a first and a last name. Ben Affleck playing pool.
Sadly, this movie ends up trying too hard.
Maybe it's the plot that could be told in ten minutes, which is why everyone keeps repeating the same basic information over and over again. Maybe it's the amount of assasins, bounty hunters, FBI agents and you name it who all do the same.
A total of 13 people hunt for Buddy "Aces" Israel, who's hiding from a mobster boss that set out a bounty for his heart.
And apart from a lot of shooting, and misogynistic remarks and
Why one would want the heart of a drug-addicted alcoholic with probably at least one venereal disease is beyond me, but fits perfectly the pointlessness of the whole movie.
But at least, we get electric blue eyes in front of a electric blue sky.
The Tremor Brothers are the perfect example for the headache-inducing "characterisation" of the movie. Neonazis, that only grunt at each other, listen to Rammstein and have a serious oral fixation?
And the scene at the end? Proves that our boy can die with a nice pirouette, but apart from that, I fail to see the point. Other than that "the good boys always win", which steers heavily away from the Tarantino-feel we are supposed to get.
I recommend you just jump to that scene in which Darwin Tremor "talks" to Jack Dupree, for two reasons.
One, Ben Affleck does not say a single word, and two:
Of course, you can watch the rest of the movie too, while you're at it.
Find it here at
riversidepub.Thanks for your time,
erynwen (who watches and reviews movies a bit differently than others *gg*) 
