Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

paul-2123 How hard up must Tom Berenger & Vinnie Jones to "Star" in this utter dross? Words simply cannot express how awful this film is.Apparently the title of worst film ever made currently is Plan 9 From Outer Space.Smoking aces 2 will SURELY take over that title - at least Plan 9 was so bad it was funny! This film had in my mind the following faults: Bad acting, bad script, bad special effects, bad action sequences. It didn't even have a surprise twist ending (EXACTLY same plot as Smoking Aces 2 - but with cheaper actors!) I almost feel resentful for taking the time on reviewing this awful waste of time, but I feel it is my civic duty to prevent others losing around 2 hours of their life on this piece of excrement! I would rather saw off my leg with a blunt rusty saw than be forced to watch this rancid pile of brown stuff! AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!P.S I've ticked spoilers just in case - but how you can "spoil" arguably the worst film ever made I don't know!

TdSmth5 In Smokin' Aces II, various professional killers are offered 3 million to kill some wheelchair-bound midlevel FBI analyst by 3 am. The FBI finds out about the plot and mounts an operation to transport him and keep him safe in an underground bunker. For some reason this bunker is in a not so good neighborhood, under a Jazz club. The FBI stations agents in a motel across the street, 2 snipers on a roof, and an agent at the front door disguised as a panhandler. The owner of the club and trumpet player of the band is also an FBI agent.Going after the money are assorted brilliant killers- a hot Latin chick, a family of rednecks, a master of disguise and a meticulous Vinnie Jones character. They all converge on the club and massive firefights and explosions erupt. Every killer has his own strategy. Vinnie and the chick pretend to be patrons at the bar, the master of disguise already has taken on the persona of one of the FBI agents. And the rednecks show up later for the party with their own brand of violence.Meanwhile the agent in charge Baker with a team of females try to research who is behind this and why. He also talks to the potential victim at length to find out why he is being targeted. The victim, who is good at card tricks has no idea why he was chosen. But Baker's team finds out that the villain who has hired the killers is called Hal Leuco. He was involved somehow in something called Operation True Patriot which in turn had something to do with various attacks against the West as a response, blowback, for brutal operation perpetrated by the West in the Middle East.The resolution of all this will turn out to be not just interesting story-wise but also lots of fun to see. In particular the Tremor family is colorful, has some original ways of doing mayhem and we learn most about them as well. A bit, but not enough, is told about the other killers.One problem with the movie is the setting in the bunker at night. In that regard part I was better because it had bigger and better settings during the day, had more light and color. Stuff going on in bunkers for hours isn't visually all that interesting. Autumn Reeser is very watchable though.Overall, an action movie that's a lot of fun to see and with a smart story.

Andy Van Scoyoc They tried, that much is apparent, but they weren't even close.I rented this movie with high expectations. I knew that it couldn't possibly be as good as the first and as usual, when I get my hopes up, I'm extremely disappointed. And I was.What a waste of film, time and talent. Even bringing back Maury Sterling to reprise his role as Lester Tremor (who somehow managed to survive being shot – I'm assuming due to all the metal he was wearing that maybe (?) deflected the bullets– and somehow much more docile than in the first S.A.,) the slick way of introducing all the lead characters (as in the first movie) and even the mentionings of Morris Mecklin and Buddy Israel – who also somehow survived a cocaine overdose and his life-giving plug being pulled – could save this joke of a movie.Even a re-appearance of another character (with a different name of course) from the first movie, didn't do anything to help it. I guess they thought people wouldn't notice bringing back more than one dead person? The characters in this sequel (including a return by Lazlo Soot and except for him) were shallow, pathetic and in the case of the emergence of a whole new Tremor clan (except for Maury Sterling who, as I mentioned, reprises his role of a much toned down, not so radical looking, Lester) were downright stupid.Rather than a plot of some tired, old dinosaur being targeted for death for some code he cracked, the sensible storyline would have been to make agent Messner (played in the first action-packed masterpiece, by Ryan Reynolds) the target, due to his actions at the end of the first movie. If Ryan refused to reprise his role (and who could blame him if he had any idea the sequel would be this bad?) then they could have gotten someone else, made up the new storyline to include him having to change his face (a la Primo Sparazza aka Freeman Heller from the first movie) to avoid being hunted/killed/imprisoned, etc but his real identity being leaked, thus…the next Smokin' Aces. You get the idea and believe me…anything would have been better than the abortion storyline that we were given.I've heard this was actually a prequel, rather than a sequel and if that's the case, then a LOT more needed to be done to it to ensure that the person watching understood that it was supposed to take place before the first one...something...anything to make it clearer that it wasn't a sequel.As it is...my review stands as is, because that's how the movie was presented.

imdb-178478 While I thoroughly enjoyed Smokin' Aces No. 1, this movie gave me brain cramps. I don't even no where to begin, since all parts of it were equally wrong.I'm no quitter, I watched the movie in it's entirety, the whole uninspired story, the sickeningly corny dialogs, the cheapest-possible special effects, the mind-boggling "twist" ending and everything. I could literally feel my brain strangling itself with the spinal cord so the pain would end. I just now signed up at IMDb to warn you, for that taking one for the team wasn't completely in vain. Let's review it in a more structured fashion:First: The Plot. It has nothing to do with the events from Smoking Aces 1 and it's only very loosely related. We have several insane assassins competing for the kill, several FBI agents and a mark. There, the similarities end and the convolutions begin.More than the entire first half of the movie is introduction of the assassins. And you get to sit through very long scenes of unreflected, extreme gore. In a flashback scene, one of the killers is driving several ice picks into the brains of a restrained but conscious man describing the process in every intricate detail. While the camera watches it without blinking. I enjoyed Rambo 4, but this made my stomach turn. It's unneeded and doesn't manage to transport any emotion, not even shock or hatred towards the killer. The rest of the idiocy is stereotypical White Trash Nazis that fornicate their siblings and The Black Widow, a Femme so incredibly Fatale, they had her kill a child molesting, Black Widow-seducing priest right before the altar. Then the FBI assembles to escort the mark to a not-so undisclosed, not-so safe location, but need to hand in their FBI badges and their brains first. Any climactic moment is either ignored (see: Brain Ice Picks) or ruined by one-liners coined by the directors three-year old nephew (see: Black Widow poison-kissing the priest)Second half of the movie is watching brain-deprived FBI agents trying to secure the bunker below. They could've appointed Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons and he'd made less screamingly dumb things. FBI Special Agents AND professional assassins are shooters worse than Imperial Stormtroopers. They're shooting live midget clowns strapped with bombs into the bar above the bunker. Explosion CGI are worse than the special effects on Windows Minesweeper. Dumb FBI agents again, then corny one-liner, then another endless firefight among Imperial Stromtropper marksmen and then the forcefully contorted ending that will leave you feeling mentally molested for at least several hours. The last seconds are the best of it: the main villain is simply shot like a dog. Two bullets put him and his shame of a movie down. No one-liner, no looking back. By adding Jar Jar Binks and Wesley Crusher, this movie would have GAINED character likability.Remember: what has been seen cannot be unseen. Friends don't let friends watch this.