Rama’s SCREEN

This action flick clearly comes from the planet trying too hard

Smokin’ Aces wants so badly to copy the works of masters like Rodriguez, Tarantino, and Guy Ritchie… but it came up short

now don’t get me wrong… I like action movies.. with lots of gunpower, blood, bodyparts flying, people getting kicked left and right and a bit of comedy along the way… and I think Quentin Tarantino is the man for that kind of film.

but Smokin’ Aces.. it’s just… the story of each character is not cleverly interwoven… interwoven, haha.. I like that word.

well.. anyway.. like I said.. there’s just too much confusion… and the twist, the twist at the end is just a pathetic attempt to save what is left of this whole movie, which overall is a pathetic attempt to try to be what it could never be.

The only one worth watching is the pretty face of Alicia Keys, even that is not a worthy enough reason to sit through this mess fest.

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