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Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: The hyper-stylized violence isn't nearly as senseless as the narrative bits in between. And the 'twist' employs the same sleight-of-hand as The Usual Suspects. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: This film was not based on a video game, but that's the vibe and the aesthetic at work here: YEAH! KILL!, followed by a few muttered expressions of the horror, the horror. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Did Carnahan think these sickening scenes would give Smokin' Aces a moral complexity that's generally absent from this genre? I think they make the picture seem even more morally bankrupt. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Based on this outing, writer-director Joe Carnahan can't tell a story worth a damn -- especially not a complicated mishmash like this one. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: None of the numerous, sketchily drawn characters adds up to much to care about in the short running time. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Carnahan creates a spectacle of nihilism, with a number of scenes of carnage, including a shootout in an elevator. This vision is no mere gesture, as it is for, say, Guy Ritchie. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's all a mad, mad, mad, mad whirl of bullets, bloodshed, the occasional breast and agonizingly lame jokes aimed at males who don't get out much. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: There's no shortage of flash and bother, but not much to care about. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Smokin Aces achieves a level of vicarious thrill, but it's all peaks and valleys, with lows that are too low and highs that are too high. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Sadly, more than an hour of this movie is given over to talking. And not the wink-wink Quentin Tarantino kind, either. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A grindhouse-inspired concoction that may not contain a shred of originality, but it is executed with unbridled bombast and glee. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It's ludicrous, but not as ludicrous as the ending -- an exhausting game of Twister that'll leave you feeling stupid or cheated or both. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Meaningless violence incarnate, a pointed mix of laughs and wanton death; and yes, that might actually mean something, but precisely what is never clear. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: You can't take it seriously, but the movie is as lively as it is debased. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Anyone with a brain bigger than those of the Tremors will have figured out the big Usual Suspects twists that are designed to give all this some emotional payoff. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: This movie is meant to be watched the way a video game is played: just go from scene to scene and start blasting the minute you walk through the door. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Take two or three over-the-top Hong Kong films, add a bit of blaxploitation attitude, spice it up with some Quentin Tarantino stunt casting, and soak the whole thing in crazy, chainsaw violence. Now throw out 90 percent of everything but the violence. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Violence is spread throughout the film, and some of it is entertaining, I have to admit. But the climax at Buddy's Tahoe penthouse is Tarantino on speed. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Impersonal hackwork by someone who is bending over backwards to sell out and become the new Michael Bay. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Smokin Aces is a Viagra suppository for compulsive action fetishists and a movie that may not only be dumb in itself, but also the cause of dumbness in others. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Putting Ben Affleck, and the poor man's Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds, in the same movie? Not a good move. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: But Smokin' Aces is all pumped up with no place to go, and the crashing letdown, as the rush fades and the ammo shells lie spent across the screen, is heavy indeed. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Smokin' Aces is Tarantino lite -- a vague and unsuccessful attempt to bring together a bunch of offbeat, unrelated characters in a situation where a bloody resolution is inescapable. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: A gruesome Cannonball Run with Piven flesh as the trophy, Smokin' Aces is a depressingly nihilistic entry in the Tarantino/Guy Ritchie/Ocean's Eleven caper genre. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Smokin' Aces may be packing a lot of heat but its unnecessarily convoluted story means it's mostly a lot of hot air. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: This is from the same Joe Carnahan who impressed mightily with his Sundance hit Narc, a tale of murder and police corruption that was lean, focussed and spellbinding -- everything that Smokin' Aces isn't. What the hell happened? Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: We just sit there numbly, awaiting the next sensation and trying, without notable success, to comprehend the preposterous backstory. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: The film's whimsicality makes it a big step back for the director, who shows he has little handle over anything bar garish action set-pieces. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Time Out: Not a fresh idea emerges from this risible exercise in muscle-car camerawork, squib-crazy shoot-outs and self-admiring pyrotechnics. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It wants to be a Tarantino-esque dark comedy about gun-slinging, substance-abusing lowlifes. But instead it's a convoluted, slap-happy, humorless bloodfest. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Smokin' Aces blows some cool smoke rings until it makes the very un-cool mistake of overstaying its welcome. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Self-important but not untalented, Smokin' Aces is tonally consistent from beginning to end, and, for all its bloody mayhem, kinetic nihilism, and jive minstrelsy, has a surprisingly light touch. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Isn't this grown-up? In a word, no, and that's what's so much fun about it. Read more