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Release Date: Jan 26, 2007; Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Apr 17, 2007; Genre: Drama; With: Jeremy Piven; Distributor: Universal
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By Clark Collis
Clark Collis
Clark Collis is a senior writer for EW

Jeremy Piven is Buddy Aces, a Vegas magician-mobster with a contract on his head. Ryan Reynolds is an FBI agent who must keep him alive. And their costars are other characters you won't care much about in writer-director Joe Carnahan's kinetic but trite action-comedy, Smokin' Aces.
EXTRAS Carnahan (Narc) is so enthusiastic in a making-of featurette that you wish his efforts had been in a better cause. Two commentaries find him ruminating on, among other things, the fact that Ben Affleck ''can't hit a goddamn pool ball to save his life.'' B-


Posted Apr 13, 2007
 

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