DVD-Smokin' Aces

About the only good thing I can say about this flick is that Alicia Keys is smoking hot in it. Other than that, this movie fails.

Smokin' Aces crams everything into it. It has an all-star cast. It has witty dialogue. It has a lot of action, violence, sex, and gore. The plot is ambitious. The characters are out of this world. Yet, it is because of this that the movie fails.

I suspect that Smokin' Aces was an American attempt at making a movie like Snatch or Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. But those movies fail for the same reasons. It is too much to take in.

Aristotle had a dictum that a story had to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That may seem elementary, but that structure has proved to be the most satisfying for audiences for millennia. It is why Billy Shakespeare continues to enthrall audiences to this day.

Smokin' Aces is a caper film about a host of contract killers going after some slimebag weasel. You never get involed with the story because it moves too fast and has too many pieces in it. It's like they threw in everything but the kitchen sink. I think this can be done if you're making an epic, but you're not going to pull it off in a 2 hour timespan.

Watching Smokin' Aces is like having sex with a tranny. There is more equipment on the playing field than is necessary. I give it a thumbs down.

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