Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball [Blu-ray]
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball [Blu-ray]
The director of Smokin’ Aces and Narc brings you back into the adrenaline-pumping world of blood, bullets and badasses. Packed with insane mercenaries, sexy assassins, and more of the fan-favorite Tremor family, this all-new explosive film tells the story of a low-level FBI agent with a high-price on his head! May the best hit man survive!
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars Extinguish Smokin’ Aces 2
Awful. A total waste of time. If you want clever big screen action, watch “The Tournament” with Kelly Hu instead.
1 Stars Smoking Poop
I liked the first Smoking Aces. This one has Vinnie Jones, Tom Berenger and Michael Parks and a couple of hot chicks but this movie is just AWFUL. I would give it a zero if I could.
2 Stars Much Disappointed Sequel. Don’t Waste Your Time/Money on It.
(This review may contain minor spoiler.)
With the brilliant work done in the first film, this seems to be the worst and tasteless sequel among all. It gave me the impression that the producer just wanted to make another movie because of the wild reception they had from the first movie. Yet he forgot to put in any new idea after the first one. Worse than Matrix II, Spiderman II, Superman II, etc. You get the idea.
I gave Smoking Aces a 4.8 and this sequel a 2.4. Here is why:
Smoking Aces:
1. Many fully/quickly developed crazy characters. Don’t you love the Tremor brothers!
2. Multi-line development
3. Great dialogs. If not great, at least you don’t find lines that can be completely crossed off.
4. Relatively unexpected plot - i.e. you probably don’t know what the ending is about for the majority part of the movie. The story unfolds.
5. Descent length.
Smokin Aces 2:
1. Not as many unique/new assassins. There is fewer in number and among them none seem to be interesting enough for you to care about their stories.
2. Single-line story
3. Many useless dialogs, such as the one on the conflict between the younger/older special agents, which does not add any value to the film.
4. You have a good idea about the plot less than 1/2 way into the movie.
5. Much shorter story with little twist.
Overall, I felt that the producer/writer/director really wanted to do something given the first success but completely failed to bring any creative ideas/characters/plots. If you like the first movie, I would recommend watching it again rather than watching this one.
2 Stars Cannonball - RUN!!!!
If you saw Smokin’ Aces, you know the drill. A hit has been put out on someone for some semi-convoluted reason, and this brings in the supposed best of the best. The redneck family’s one remaining kin is here, brining along a female cousin, daddy, and a retarded member of the clan. Soot, master of facial disguises, is also there. There are also names that people will recognize, some people won’t, and all of this to protect a seemingly broken down old FBI agent with mid-level clearance that has “popped across the wrong information. The place they put him is a veritable Fort Know, too, and doesn’t look like it could be broken into.
I guess firing midgets with TNT at it, RPGS at it, and a montage of other things just weren’t on the protection list.
Like the first movie, this continuation tries to take something slick and add it to the storyline. The only problem is that the slickness is overdone in a lot of ways, and it really doesn’t amount to that much when everything is said and done. When I saw a few of the names billed, I thought we might have a chance at some bad guys still being bad. I’ve gotten partial to a few of the killers here after some Guy Ritchie films and I thought I might get a taste of that - no such luck since they didn’t let him be him. (That was said, too, because he really does strike me as a mean sorta “chap.”)
The way people kill is a reflection of the last movie (except for the carnie way - which was pretty funny), and many of the characters are just generic spawn left over from the murderous gene pool. Even some of the ways that protection is offered seems the same - although the reasoning is a big different and the world is a conspiracy - and the wonder of the cards kept me thinking of the first showing. Everytime our witness went down the rabbit hole I thought,” is this a guy related to Buddy? Are they going to steal his heart or kidney or something else inside the amn?” It was distracting. Speaking of the killing once more, the methods used made it really hard to imagine these people killing their way out of a paper bag - much less a bad situation. I mean, I’m sure that many types of people use many types of talent to do things BUT the FBI watchers aren’t stupid. They don’t hear names in closets and think “i should stare at the wall and wait to die” and things like that. Added to that was the fact that the inbred army doesn’t seem to have much going for them, the same scams and the killers get redundant, and the whole scenario seems to be - a copy.
I really wanted to like the movie - I liked the first one enough to think that the banter was fun, that the violence was interesting, and that the story was something that really had its moment. That was what made this movie so problematic - it had holes in it, and the holes kept popping up everywhere. The reliance on the same old gags made me think of older movies where, in the past, audiences would stand and cheer because they liked the way that stuff went down. Now, however, it tastes like glass when it tries to slip into the world of watchery and torment viewers with yet another bout of lower budgeted sequels.
4 Stars great another smokin’ aces movie
This movie is great. There are no necessary connection between the first and the this one but to be enjoyed by itself, I think this is better or at least the same quality. The story is more thrilling, the action is little more frequent and the quality of the action is the same. The dialogues are great for a B movie or direct to DVD movie. Tom Berenger and Calyne Crawford have a great conversation and relationship in this whole movie in many different angles. Satisfying ending and pretty good message they put in the movie. I easily say it’s at least the same quality as the 1st one or even better. If you enjoyed the first one, you will definitely enjoy this one, as far you put in mind that this is just another smokin’ aces movie, not a sequel or continuing from the first one. Enjoy the shootout and little sarcastic (and sometime smart) jokes there. Ooo.. one flaw, they make the FBI look dumb in this movie even worse than the first one, especially agent Durane?? We as a normal citizen (except you’re a high class, FBI or assassin hehehe..) know that’s the worst reaction you can give to something that suspicious…. counter attack special agent? and the whole team with lack of sensitivity or weirdness and communications, anyway, just enjoy the ride for the shootout and twist and political struggle, nothing more and you’ll enjoy it!
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