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movie review - Smokin' Aces

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.06.11

This is the story of a thoroughly unlikable bit-player in the criminal underworld who's decided to start working with the authorities. Every ridiculously over-the-top assassin in the country turns up to collect the fat payment offered for his execution. These all are run through absurd plot lines and frankly embarrassing attempts at cool and slick and sophisticated. I ran out of patience with this one fairly early on and skipped along until it reached its silly ending just to see it through. I don't really know why I do this, it never pays off.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

—Albert Einstein