Saturday, February 10, 2007

A summary and review of Smokin' Aces

The movie begins showing an FBI stake-out of the Mob Boss, Primo Sparazza. The FBI discovers that he is calling a million dollar hit on a Vegas Showster known as Buddy "Aces" Israel. Then the viewer is introduced to each of six groups of people after Israel, including a group of three neo-nazis, two female assassins, "the Swede", "the Plague", Lazlo Soot, and a group of three bail bondsmen. As the story progresses, the neo-nazis kill off most of the bail bondsmen, and most of Israel's henchmen are killed off by Soot. One of the women is nearly captured by the FBI agents, and her partner snipes many of them with a 50 caliber rifle from across the street.

The plague kills one of the main two FBI agents in an elevator, and is severely wounded himself. Israel's last remaining henchmen escapes with non-sniper female assassin from a fight with the neo-nazis, in which two of them are killed. Soot manages to drug Aces into a coma, and the FBI takes both Aces and Primo into custody. Plague escapes on a stretcher, and the last bail bondsman kills the last neo-nazi. Finally, the viewer finds out that Primo Sparazzi is actually an ex-undercover FBI agent, and Aces is his son, and the only possible donor for a heart which he is in dire need of, and "the Swede" is actually the doctor who is to perform the operation. The FBI is going to allow this to happen, and then use Sparazzi to bring down the last of the mob in Vegas. In the final scene, the last main FBI agent locks the hospital door, takes them both off of life support, and surrenders his badge and gun, and puts his face in his hands.

This movie is one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my entire life, including documentaries I was forced to watch in middle school. Even the sex education one. It almost beats out Alexander for the worst movie ever, but not quite. It's an A.D.D. action movie, with very little plot development that tries to make a deep ending but fails horribly, and ends up making utterly no sense. The main FBI character, played by Ryan Reynolds, doesnt have enough depth or development to let you comprehend his reasons for the actions he takes in the conclusion of the movie. The only entertainment value this movie holds is pure violence, and
the only unique thing it has is people being hit by a 50-caliber sniper rifle.

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