Smokin' Aces

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This movie is awesome. There is an awful lot of killing involved with this movie, and a lot of it is horribly cheesy, but nevertheless its great. The characters are awesome, and the dialogue is pretty good as well. Definately a great movie if you like fast past action movies.
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I've been wanting to go see it since I saw some of the shooting up at Lake Tahoe while going back and forth to work....
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I really enjoyed it. Definitely not a thinker or anything, but if you like action movies it was quite entertaining.
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Very fun movie.
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I'm not sure what the film was trying to be. I'm all for off the wall silliness gore and violence but it was offset by the amount of 'serious' scenes that didn't seem like they were satire or tongue in cheek references to the genre. The acting was fairly good, and Ryan Reynolds actually suprised me. He's not an oscar shoe-in or anything but I am looking foward to seeing what else he can do.

I thought the scene at the end was really good, but unfortunately, like most of the scenes it didn't seem to belong in this film. Instead of working on a script and throwing in cool ideas it's like the writer/director had a bunch of 'cool' ideas and tried to write a script to accomodate them all.

Honestly if it wasn't for Clint Mansell's score, I would've forgotten about this movie days after viewing it.

Maybe I'll give it another shot sometime. The hyperactive mook in me is a sucker for these types of movies but this film just seems terribly unfocused.
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