Smokin' Aces

Smokin' Aces ain't half as cool as it wants to be - taking its cues from Tarantino & co, jive dialogue, comic book archetype villains and heroes, bloodbath climax, 'twist' ending and all, it ends up being far short of the colourfully violent film geek mainstream-cult piece for which it shoots. In the end, I think, the problem is that one just doesn't care about any of the characters, nor about the plot, and even the style isn't anything we haven't seen before.