Walter Weed 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. Where shall I start? The first movie was full of nice dialogues, a good plot, nice characters,… All of those things are lost in this movie.<br/><br/>Smokin' Aces 2 is just such a crappy direct-to-DVD-release. 'What do you say Sir? A plot?' Indeed, it's like they never even heard of it.<br/><br/>I am serious, the acting is horrible, CGI ain't looking good, no plot? I saw it after I was watching Sin City. So you come from great-near-perfect to hmm-what-is-this!<br/><br/>The only 2 points I am giving is for the awesome rack that comes into screen. This is by far the worst movie seen in 2010. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but I wished this was a baby never born… Missed chance! 2/10 Having had this recommended to me by a friend, and having seen the first one, I was quite hopeful when I put the disc into the DVD player. Unfortunately, 84 minutes later I was looking for my friends' number to tell him never to recommend a film to me again! I think you can guess I was not impressed with what I saw.<br/><br/>Walter Weed an ageing government analyst has had a hit put out on him. Several assassins have been invited to try and kill him on a specific date and at a very specific time. The FBI reacts quickly and moves him into a secure location in a bunker under a Jazz club in Chicago. The assassins, however, seem to have been appraised of his location and move in for the kill. It's every man, and woman, for himself and so there is no team play as they move in for the kill. With time running out, will any of them make it to the prize and collect the three million dollars on offer? I'll leave my short summary here.<br/><br/>Apart from Tom Berenger as Walter Weed, none of the rest of the cast put in a decent performance. Maybe not entirely their fault because the script didn't really give them much to play with. The plot, as an idea, was quite clever, but if it had been made as a spy thriller instead of a stupid gun-fest I suspect it would have worked a lot better. I feel sorry that Tom Berenger has had to stoop so low, he deserves better material than this. Over all, really not recommended.<br/><br/>My score: 5.1/10
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