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A Major Disappointment

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This follow-up to 'Smokin' Aces' has no real connection to original film; it is however similar in that both involve a large number of rival assassins targeting one man. That one man is Walter Weed, a mid-ranking FBI agent who is confined to a wheelchair and has no access to top secret information... an odd target for a $3,000,000 bounty. That isn't the only strange thing about the hit; it is stipulated that Weed must die at 3am on the 19th of April. He and a team of FBI protectors take cover in a protected bunker under a Chicago jazz club while the assorted killers close in on the location. As they wait for the appointed hour the FBI struggle to discover who placed the contract and why.I thought this film got off to a great start; I was immediately hooked by the question of just why anybody would want to kill an apparently unimportant FBI agent at such a specific time. The introduction to the various assassins is also handled well and they are a suitably mixed bunch. Things then get a little messy; the bunker under the jazz club may be pretty cool but it isn't a logical place for the FBI to hide Weed; surely a remote facility would make more sense. Once the assassins start their attack; both on the facility and each other, things get rather silly... admittedly this is deliberate with red-neck assassins launching exploding clowns into the club! The ultimate explanation as to why Weed is being targeted wasn't a complete surprise but it was still interesting and led to a decent conclusion. Overall I'd say that this wasn't as good as the original film but if you want some action you could do worse.

This movie really had some potential. They had actors that have been known to be very decent. But this script was absolute garbage, the quips and humor was dull and stupid, and the protagonist of the film is stale and not very believable. At the end of this movie I found myself wondering what the point of this was. Don't get me wrong, I'm an action junkie and I enjoy intentionally stereotypical, over the top, comic bookish characters, but these were terrible. The only two assassins you get interested in are killed off in the blink of an eye leaving the stupidest ones left to finish the movie. One group of assassins is a clan of biker/redneck… people. Their clothing looks so new I cant take them seriously. They end up stealing a circus trailer so they can use the cannon to launch live clowns strapped with dynamite into a building. It almost sounds funny but it's shot horrendously. Which leads me to my next point. Don't use explosions if you can't do them right. These were the worst effects I've seen in a long time. There were unnecessary scenes where you could tell they used a green screen; many of them were used while the redneck clan was driving around. This was just all around disappointing. Which is a shame because the locations, lighting, and choreography for some of these shootouts were absolutely gorgeous! That is the only thing keeping me from giving this movie 1 star.

I picked the first movie only because it had Ryan Reynolds in the lead. If the movie had a lot of shooting action, lots of characters and a bigger budget, the story was a mess and i really didn't like it.I picked this one, now who knows why, i guess because i kinda like Vinnie Jones, even if he is mostly hit or miss, as in sometimes he steal the show, other times he just has a small part and don't do much.I would say the movie is a lot better in term of story. It does not waste time too much on a million side characters and the main story is fluid and all. The action lack a bit tough in that one, surprisingly.The new characters are cool but i felt some of them where wasted past there introduction. I would had like to see a lot more of them.In any case a decent DTV release, nothing impressive tough, if you don't watch much movies i suggest you really pass this one, but if you are like me watching 10+ movies a week, and you can get it at a pawnshop.. then why not?I give it a 6 on 10 on my personal review chart, as it gave me a decent time, but did not impress me in any mean, so just a bit above the "par". But by IMDb standard and the weird rating of the peoples here, i would say a 4...

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.