Smokin Aces 2 DVD
Starring: Tom Berenger, Martha Higareda, Vinnie Jones, Tommy Flanagan
Directing: P.J.Pesce
Rating: 0/5
Let's face it the original Smokin' Aces wasn't a major success when it hit cinema screens but did do well when it came to DVD.
So Universal, in all it's wisdom decided that we all need to return to the world of gun toting mayhem with Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball.
Walter Weed (Tom Berenger, Training Day) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him.
A team of degenerate, psychotic Assassins’ dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.
Also in the hunt is the fan-favourite the Tremor family from the original film, featuring nymphomaniacal gun-nut and her insane band of mean men.
And it's never a good sign when a straight to DVD filmmaker P.J.Pesce and boy has he had a bad record with From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter, Sniper 3 all not making it to the big screen.
And funnily enough Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball if following in their footsteps with a straight to DVD.
It's never a good sign when you can only stomach the first twenty minutes of a movie finding it so boring that you had to turn it off.
Being able to work out what was actually happening in that first twenty minutes would also have been a bonus as it was a total jumbled mess.
Poor old Walter has a whole host of gun toting kills out to get him and Pesce tried to cram as many of those characters into the opening scenes as was humanly possible.
Through in violence as some quips about incest and you know that you are on a downward spiral that can only lead to disaster.
Sadly I didn't even get to see much Vinnie Jones action, it's amazing how well he has done in Hollywood being a relatively mediocre actor.
And you have got to wonder what an actor like Tom Berenger, who was totally awesome in 1986's Platoon, is doing is a movie like this.
If you are fans of the original I suggest that maybe you watch that instead and if you do get to the closing credit of Smokin' Aces 2 then give yourself a big pat on the back.
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball is out on DVD now.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw