2010 Directed by P.J. Pesce
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.
Tom Berenger Clayne Crawford Tommy Flanagan Maury Sterling Martha Higareda Christopher Michael Holley Ernie Hudson Michael Parks Autumn Reeser Vinnie Jones Hrothgar Mathews Jared Keeso Jason Schombing David Richmond-Peck C. Ernst Harth John R. Taylor Carrie Keagan Michael Eklund Lauren K. Robek Sonja Bennett Keegan Connor Tracy Merwin Mondesir Phillip Mitchell Doug Chapman Michael Adamthwaite
Tanya Allen Jeff Sanca Darren Shahlavi Lloyd Adams Brad Loree Ed Anders Byron Brisco Darryl Scheelar Kimani Ray Smith Brad Kelly Scott J. Ateah Rikki Gagne Fraser Corbett Lani Gelera Brett Armstrong Randy Lee Owen Walstrom Janene Carleton Ryan Ennis Brent Connolly Ernie Jackson Gavin Buhr Laura Lee Connery Gaston Morrison Colby Chartrand Joe Doserro Anthony St. John
Universal Studios Home Entertainment Always Split Aces Productions Working Title Films Capital Arts Entertainment
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So this was pretty competent!
It starts off with some of the ugliest filmed scenes ever put to celluloid, and I was a little worried as to whether I'd make it through the whole thing.
It gets better! The list of would-be assassins are just as interesting as those from the original, there's a cool if hilariously implausible safe house, and even a 100% predictable twist.
Look, know what type of movie you're getting into, but this is... an okay time. At the very least, you can enjoy some of the truly worst-looking CGI explosions of all-time. And not like one or two, there are like a dozen splashes of ugly orange.
In the second "Smokin' Aces",
There are a few familiar faces.
Assassins assemble,
But doesn't resemble,
The first movie in many places.
I thought the first film had little personality, but then I watched the second one and I have to say that I misjudged the first, considering what I've seen here. This film is simply lazy, and that's pretty much its whole deal.
Another one of those cheaper-made direct-to-DVD sequels. Lacking in behind and in-front of the camera talent and just inferior to the original. This movie was also edited by squirrels, or so it seems.
The title of the original Smokin' Aces referred to smoking Jeremy Pivens' character, who was nicknamed "Aces," so now the sequel's title seems just a little weird.
On the bright side, shooting dwarf clowns out of a cannon to be used as weaponry was an interesting artistic choice. I also love Vinnie Jones in anything, and he's in this, with his great line delivery and just being a general bad ass. The late great Michael Parks is here too, leading a family of insane homicidal maniacs. There are things to enjoy, it's just a little less-than compared to the original.
Gigantic wall of text about FBI agents, what a riveting way to start a movie. Then it does that thing the first one does, FBI people listening to some conversation with a camera that never fucking sits still. This old FBI dude is a target for an assassination so he needs protecting. A bunch of wacky assassins are after him, it's the same shit as the first movie.
Creepy priests and Poison Ivy style fake lips. It actually rips of Batman and Robin, that's the level this shit works on. Vinnie Jones is in it of course, gives a lecture about brain surgery or something while giving this fucker a lobotomy. The Tremor family are back and so is the…
Listen, I know Smokin' Aces isn't a sacred cow action film IP like Star Wars or, a more appropriate comparison, the John Wick series. But the original Smokin' Aces is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. I enjoyed how Joe Carnahan infused his style into its direction, transforming the product to resemble an adult graphic novel with its violence, colorful characters, and edginess.
All of that is gone in its successor, a prequel set a couple years before the first installment. This time a hit has been declared on Tom Berenger's Walter Weed, an FBI intelligence analyst who has a contract stating he must be dead at a certain time. He's then taken to a safehouse underneath a…
It's a testament to how some actor's career paths slip away towards mediocrity that an Oscar Nominated star would take a role in a film of this quality. Tom Berenger was, and is, much too good an actor to bother with the sort of script that director P.J. Pence manages to bring to this prequel to the balls-out Smokin' Aces. The first film was nuts, but there was a charm to it all and it attracted a couple of interesting names to the cast list. This one has Berenger and Vinnie Jones as arguably the more recognisable of the actors on view here, but this is basically a mess of a film that tries unsuccessfully to capture the first film's…
Should have guessed what i was in for with a movie directed by the same man whose most famous works are From Dusk Till Dawn 3 and The Lost Boys 2.
This movie is the ridiculously overwritten action-version of the first Saw movie, that never knows any bounds, and overreaches on every single level. It also distances itself so far away from what the first on at least sort of tried to do, that is being an entertaining action thrillride.
When i say Saw, i also do mean it. There are a crazy list of overlapping thefts both in storytelling, cinematography and editing from the actual sort of great Saw.
Assassins Ball tries to be social commentary, critizing the American…
i should give this movie a lower rating, but something inside me is not letting me.
Damn you Michael parks.
As far as action/shoot ‘em up movies go, I’ve seen worse. This one is far less interesting that the first one. This has the required amount of shooting and killing and double crosses and sexy girls, just the story is kind of weak overall. Tom Berenger stars in this alongside Clayne Crawford. Easily forgotten.
Fortsetzungen die Direct-to-DVD, wie es früher so schön hieß, rausgekommen sind, sollten eine Warnung für sich sein, aber wer nicht hören will muss fühlen.
Ich sollte ab jetzt besser aus meinen Fehlern lernen.
