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Reviews of Zach Cumer, Warren In Smokin Aces |
| Movie review: 'Smokin' Aces' By Colin Covert, Star Tribune, Minnesota |
For no reason pertinent to the story, about halfway into "Smokin' Aces" a remarkable character is introduced. He's a hyper-aggressive ADD-addled 12-year-old talking trash to an adult who has stumbled across his path. The pipsqueak swings his fists and nunchucks so they miss smashing the grownup's nose by millimeters. He shrieks macho challenges and becomes visibly aroused at the prospect of a rumble. A few moments later the ferocious flyweight vanishes and never appears again. |
| Movie Review By Victoria Alexander, FilmsInReview.com | I liked all the characters Carnahan created (especially loved the Ritalin turbo-charged kid and his indulgent grandma). |
| Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore |
It's a real pileup of a movie, Pulp Fiction on speed. There are giggles in its little flourishes, the over-the-top acting turns (a Ritalin-racked karate-kid wannabe who is hysterical). One big shoot-out might take your breath away. |
| January 26, 2007 NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEW | 'SMOKIN' ACES' By A. O. SCOTT |
More than anything else, the movie struggles desperately to achieve a transcendent state of hard-boiled pop-culture knowingness, to mash up a whole dictionary of poses and allusions in a gory, syncopated pastiche. Vegas mobsters! Topless hookers! Blaxploitation hit-chicks! Redneck bounty hunters! Not to mention the F.B.I. guys and also the hyperactive pipsqueak ninja whose grandma has clearly let him watch too many movies like this one. |
| By Charlotte O'Sullivan, Evening Standard In London | The film's few genuinely funny moments are supplied by Jason Bateman (from TV comedy Arrested Development) and a newcomer called Zach Cumer. Bateman plays a neurotic, middle-class mob attorney who wants a piece of the action. Cumer is a spectacle-wearing, Ritalinfuelled white teen who tries to talk "black" and becomes aroused when he mimes karate moves |
| TheMovieBoy.com Dustin Putman |
…Once the meat of the story gets underway with the abrupt deaths of some major players, the film kickstarts into overdrive. For the next hour, the pacing is rapid-fire quick, the over-the-top violence gleefully bloody, and the various schemes of each group of thugs and criminals cleverly entertaining. Writer-director Joe Carnahan throws everything but the kitchen sink into his lucidly-filmed, eager-to-please world of chaos, some of which work, for example, the comic run-ins with a daffy grandmother (Marianne Muellerleile) and her karate-chopping, Ritalin-fueled grandson (Zach Cumer) |
| Boston Globe By Wesley Morris |
A first impulse is to give this alarmingly trigger-happy movie a bath. And that’s where this Ritalin-fueled karate kid who seems like an escapee from "Gummo" comes in? |
| Scene Stealers By Eric Melin |
“Smokin’ Aces” is so desperate for quirky laughs that one of Affleck’s regular Joe buddies gets trapped in a trailer home with a kid on Ritalin who sports nunchucks, an eye patch, and a boner—which he gleefully shoves in the poor bastard’s face. |
| Middle Town Journal, Dayton Ohio Eric Robinette |
The scene I remember the most from this movie involves a little kid wearing a karate suit. He’s hopped up on Ritalin and he goes around flinging nunchakus in everyone’s faces, with Carnahan freezing the frame and changing film speeds to prove how hip he is. Oh yeah, and the kid has an erection too. It’s that kind of movie. |
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Barry Paris |
There's also a mercenary with freshly amputated fingers (Martin Henderson), who is tormented by a kung-fu kid on Ritalin and his indulgent grandmother. For sheer absurdity, Ritalin Boy and Granny are my faves. Everybody's here except Bigfoot and bin Laden. It reminds me of the end of "Blazing Saddles," with the cowboys and Indians bumping into the gay tap dancers. |
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