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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA cheerfully disposable gangland freak-show thrill ride that's been directed by the gifted Joe Carnahan (Narc) as if he were trying to give the audience a seizure.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversBest consumed with pizza and lots of brewskis, Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces is shamelessly and unapologetically a guy movie. It's lewd, crude and loaded with shootouts and hot lesbo action.
- 63Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaSomeone should check Joe Carnahan for performance enhancement drugs. Smokin' Aces, the wild ride of a movie he scripted and directed, is so pumped up, manic and mayhem-packed that it practically shoots sweat off the screen.
- 60The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyIn 2002, Carnahan made an intense and violent little cop film, "Narc," with Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. He seemed to have absorbed the influences of John Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese and come up with a style of his own. I was a fan of that movie, but Smokin’ Aces feels like Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" pushed much further along into lethal absurdity.
- 60VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerSmokin' Aces blows some cool smoke rings until it makes the very un-cool mistake of overstaying its welcome.
- 60Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanCarnahan does have an oddball sense of comic timing; what his picture lacks in hilarity it recuperates with a well-developed, albeit mumbling, sense of the absurd.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttWhile the film bristles with cinematic verve, it also is as second-hand as an antique store.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliSmokin' 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.
- 50Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanA roller-coaster ride that goes on far too long, ends with a colossal crash, then follows that wreck with a lecture explaining the physics of the machinery. My head was spinning for multiple reasons, none of them pleasing.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarrit IngmanAustin ChronicleMarrit IngmanHalf the time the movie wants to be balls-out weird, and it is. But the other half – the half with the good guys – is plodding procedural fare.