werkz advice: skip it.

I caught smokin' aces this weekend with Tilda. Despite artificially lowering my expectations, the movie itself failed to live up to the great cast. The main problem was simply the writing of Joe Carnahan and the somewhat idiotic casting (Ryan Reynolds makes no jokes? Alicia Keys as an ambivalent bisexual? Jeremy Piven acting depressed?)

Instead of a nail-biting explosion-laced witty-dialog laden affair, Shane Black-style, we instead get violence without humor, meaningless plot-twists that are foreshadowed hours in advance to the audience and almost no memorable lines or characters.