NEWS FLASH: Elite Opinion Likes Guns. And Movies About People Abusing Guns. Weird.

It’s a well known and rigorously documented fact that two of my favorite things are stories about professional killers and Jeremy Piven.And I think we can all agree that those two things needed to be intertwined and put on the big screen. So on the movies-that-should-be-fucking-great scale, Smokin’ Aces is a 9.0. And if this movie turns out to be a giant pile of horse shit, you can bet your ass I’m going to piss down someone’s throat. And when I say ‘someone’, I mean director Joe Carnahan. Of course he directed Narc as well, and that flick was absolutely harsh. So I’ve got hope. And that hope is only bolstered by Aces’ cast: Piven Affleck Jason Bateman Common (yes, the rapper) Andy Garcia Alicia Keys Ray fucking Liotta and Ryan Renolds, who I like, no matter how many bad movies he’s in. Kind of an odd list- but they are all playing grimey violent characters, which is obviously the best kind of characters. Check out the goods: Trailer 1 (click to view) Trailer 2 (click to view) The only thing this movie’s missing is Ice-T dropping a load in a senator’s cereal bowl and spoon feeding it to him. This flick looks that raw. Keep your fingers crossed. Oh and Carnahan, you’ve been warned.