History Film / SmokinAces

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Both Acosta and Darwin Tremor pretend to be FBI agents to infiltrate and get away from the hotel. In the former's case, Agent Messner calls out the Pimpled Employee for failing to notice something off about it, providing the page quote above. [[spoiler:In the latter's case, he almost manages to escape unscathed before Hollis—[[TheDogBitesBack one of his victims who managed to survive]]—catches up with him and puts a few bullets InTheBack in his back]].

* MutualKill: [[spoiler:FBI Agent Carruthers]] and [[spoiler:hitman Pascale Acosta]] shoot each other to death in an elevator when the agent realizes the hitman's identity. [[spoiler:It's hinted at the end that the hitman survived, though.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:And many of them. Only five (possibly six) characters live to the end.]]

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Both Acosta and Darwin Tremor pretend to be FBI agents to infiltrate and get away from the hotel. In the former's case, Agent Messner calls out the Pimpled Employee for failing to notice something off about it, providing the page quote above. [[spoiler:In the latter's case, he almost manages to escape unscathed before Hollis—[[TheDogBitesBack one of his victims who managed to survive]]—catches up with him and puts a few bullets InTheBack in his back]].]]
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: At the very end [[spoiler:Agent Messner pulls the plug on both Buddy Israel and Primo Sparazza after he learns that his partner and dozens of other agents were sacrificed for the faint hope that Sparazza would turn informant.]] He disarms himself and takes out his badge, placing both on the floor in front of him, symbolically resigning from the FBI. Either way, he is going to be fired and sent to prison.

* IronicEcho: Overlaps with the DespairEventHorizon above. When [[spoiler:Agent Messner]] is grieving after [[spoiler:Agent Carruthers]] is killed in the hotel he takes revenge by [[spoiler:apparently killing a FBI DeepCoverAgent]].

* LeftForDead: Hollis is shot by the Tremor brothers and then tossed into the lake alongside his partners. He later crawled his way out of the lake and comes looking for revenge.

* MoleInCharge: It's revealed that the leader of the mob is really [[spoiler:an FBI agent who was burned by his handlers and had to become a criminal for real to survive, eventually rising up the ranks to the top position]].

* MutualKill: [[spoiler:FBI Agent Carruthers]] and hitman [[spoiler:Pascale Acosta]] shoot each other to death in an elevator when the agent realizes the hitman's identity. [[spoiler:It's hinted at the end that the hitman survived, though.]]

** FBI Deputy Director Stanley Locke. [[BadBoss The man tosses a dozen people, including various loyal FBI agents, to the wolves]] and manipulates things [[spoiler:so Buddy Israel becomes an unwilling heart donor for Sperazza, who may (and that is a big ''may'') provide information to the Bureau as a result]]. All while remaining totally unapologetic. [[spoiler:He ultimately undergoes a VillainousBreakdown when a vengeful Agent Messner pulls the plugs on both Israel and Sperazza.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Only five characters live to the end.]]

* BecomingTheMask: An interesting inversion of this: after [[spoiler:FBI Agent Freeman Heller goes undercover as Mafia Hitman Primo Sparazza, the higher-ups at the FBI became wrongfully convinced that he had become the mask, and tried to have him murdered. Heller survived the assassination, and to retaliate against the Bureau that betrayed him, really did become the mask, eventually becoming the head Mafia Don.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Agent Messner, [[spoiler:who ends up killing Sperazza and Israel by pulling their plugs when it becomes apparent in his eyes that his boss hadn't cared about tossing a couple of dozen people to the slaughterhouse in order to ''maybe'' get a high-powered informant.]]

* BoringButPractical: Sir Ivy manages to defeat the Tremor Brothers - wielding chainsaws, flamethrowers, and WWII sub-machine guns - with a guard's boring Beretta and a casual [=SigSauer=].

** [[spoiler:Card-tricks kept Sir Ivy from putting an extremely large slug in him, though.]]

* ChainsawGood: Jeeves Tremor, it backfires as [[spoiler:Ivy can't shoot through his body armor but he can make him fall on his chainsaw who shreds the armor]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Only Ivy, Georgia and Soot manage to get away (relatively) intact. Hollis, if he's lucky, probably will be some amputee for the rest of his life. Acosta, judging by his [[FingerTwitchingRevival arm-blade being activated]] on the stretcher, ''might'' live, but is likely to be incarcerated. Sharice gets caught, and presumably killed, by the FBI while watching her partner walk out on her. Messner will most likely lose his job and/or go to jail after pulling the life support plugs. Everybody else... [[EverybodysDeadDave well]]...]]

* ElevatorGoingDown: Referenced. One of the main characters [[ItMakesSenseInContext who is dressed as a hooker]] is waiting for an elevator. When the doors open, three heavily armed half-naked [[ThoseWackyNazis skinheads are struggling into their clothes]].

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Both Acosta and Darwin Tremor pretend to be FBI agents to infiltrate and get away from the hotel.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: At the end, Agent Messner [[spoiler:pulls the plug on both Buddy Israel and Primo Sparazza after he learns that his partner and dozens of other agents were sacrificed for the faint hope that Sparazza would turn informant.]] He disarms himself and takes out his badge, placing both on the floor in front of him, symbolically resigning from the FBI. Either way, he is going to be fired and sent to prison.

* IronicEcho: Overlaps with the DespairEventHorizon above. When [[spoiler:Messner]] is grieving after [[spoiler:agent Carruthers]] is killed in the hotel he takes revenge by [[spoiler:apparently killing a FBI DeepCoverAgent]].

* MasterOfDisguise: Lazlo Soot. Played with in that his disguises are shown to take a lot of time and effort to create and voice disguising is something he's not totally perfect at even when he has an idea of the voice he has to imitate, which forces him to improvise [[spoiler:when he shoots one of Buddy's henchmen and he has no idea of how he sounds like because he didn't heard him talk - fortunately for him said henchman was pretty much TheSilentBob of the crew.]]

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: The Swede [[spoiler:is a surgeon instead of a hitman, however he is hired to perform a heart transplant with an unwilling and alive donor.]]

* PainToTheAss: Jeeves Tremor is killed when Sir Ivy forces him to sit down on his running chainsaw.

* ShaggyDogStory: At the end of the movie when everything is revealed and it transpires that [[spoiler:the hit was one big mistake resulting from a mis-overheard conversation; Lazlo Soot was the only one actually hired and that was not to kill Israel but to abduct him. The Bureau then decided it only wanted Israel for his heart to save his Mob boss father and all the dead FBI agents died because they weren't told. Messner is so upset that his partner died just to save the life of the Mob boss, who he doesn't think will give up any useful information, that he pulls the plug on both him and Israel, making ''everything'' that happened for nothing.]]

** FBI Deputy Director Stanley Locke. [[BadBoss The man tosses a dozen people, including various loyal FBI agents, to the wolves]] and manipulates things so [[spoiler:Buddy Israel becomes an unwilling heart donor for Sperazza, who may (and that is a big ''may'') provide information to the Bureau as a result]]. All while remaining totally unapologetic.

* VillainExitStageLeft: Subverted for [[spoiler:Darwin Tremor. Darwin ''looks'' like he's about to get away, but then he runs into Hollis on the way to his car. He apologizes for what happened to Hollis and his friends and gives him the keys to his car. Just as it looks like they'll part ways peacefully, Hollis decides to shoot Darwin anyway]].

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:The final scene, in which Messner calls bullshit on his boss Locke for getting a lot of people killed (including Carruthers' partner) in the very faint hope that Sparazza will be grateful for the FBI helping with his heart transplant operation by "becoming the Rosetta Stone" for the Mafia. When Locke remains unapologetic and tells Messner to get a grip, Messner retaliates by pulling the plug on Sparazza ''and'' Israel.]]

A 2006 film, directed and written by Creator/JoeCarnahan, about the StageMagician, CasanovaWannabe, and newly turned [[TheInformant mob informant]] Buddy Israel -- a washed-up, bitter, narcissistic, alcoholic drug abuser of a stage magician -- who gets a million-dollar bounty on his head courtesy of mob lord Primo Sperazza. Naturally, HilarityEnsues!

A 2007 film, directed and written by Creator/JoeCarnahan, about the StageMagician, CasanovaWannabe, and newly turned [[TheInformant mob informant]] Buddy Israel -- a washed-up, bitter, narcissistic, alcoholic drug abuser of a stage magician -- who gets a million-dollar bounty on his head courtesy of mob lord Primo Sperazza. Naturally, HilarityEnsues!

* AdvertisedExtra: Ben Affleck as Jack Dupree. [[spoiler: He's listed first in the cast and was promoted in the film's marketing, making it seem as though he would be the main character. Dupree is killed off early in the film with very little fanfare, and it's actually Ryan Reynolds' Agent Messner who is the actual protagonist.]]

** When reading Sperazza's rap sheet, Messner notes that it contains multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, extortion, and a paternity suit. [[spoiler: That last one turns out to be a ChekhovsGun.]]

** Sharice goes ''way'' over magazine capacity as she goes ham on the [=FBI=] agents.

* ChekhovsGun: Sperazza's paternity suit. [[spoiler: It's proof that Buddy Israel is his son.]]

--­>'''Dupree:''' They are mean as shit, they are dumber than hell and these motherfuckers will go megaton on drop of a hat.

* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler:Primo Sparazza a.k.a. Freeman Heller, in deep cover since the 40's.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: After his encounter with the Tremor brothers, Hollis is in the bathtub at Margie's house, while Warren harasses him with a karate routine (and an erection). Cut to a shot of two prescription pill bottles, one of which is Warren's Ritalin. The other is a long-expired bottle of 40 hydrocodone tablets - these are the pills Margie then gives to Hollis (along with a .45 caliber pistol) mentioning that they "were left over from her hysterectomy."

* IronicEcho: Overlaps with the DespairEventHorizon above. When [[spoiler: Messner]] is grieving after [[spoiler: agent Carruthers]] is killed in the hotel he takes revenge by [[spoiler: apparently killing a FBI DeepCoverAgent]].

* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler: Lazlo Soot]]'s introductory scene.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: The UrbanLegend regarding Freeman Heller and the fact Sperazza killed him is finally cleared up ([[spoiler:Sperazza ''is'' Freeman Heller, and the FBI tried to kill him because they thought that he had done a FaceHeelTurn]]), as well as why Israel has become a target ([[spoiler:not because he's an informant, but because Heller/Sperazza needs a heart transplant (and Israel [[LukeIAmYourFather is Heller's illegitimate son, so he's the best chance for the transplant]]), and people on both the FBI and the Mafia mistook the talk regarding The Swede as that of an incoming hitman... well, everybody but Deputy Director Locke, who simply decided not to tell anybody.]])

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The final scene, in which Messner calls bullshit on his boss Locke for getting a lot of people killed (including Carruthers' partner) in the very faint hope that Sparazza will be grateful for the FBI helping with his heart transplant operation by "becoming the Rosetta Stone" for the Mafia. When Locke remains unapologetic and tells Messner to get a grip, Messner retaliates by pulling the plug on Sparazza ''and'' Israel.]]

* CerebusEnding: Anyone who thought they were watching a Creator/GuyRitchie-esque [[CarnivalOfKillers wacky-hitmen movie]] will [[MoodWhiplash be pretty surprised]] by the dark tone the eventual [[OnceMoreWithClarity exposition scene]] takes.

%%* ChainsawGood: Jeeves Tremor.

%%* ClusterFBomb

%%* VillainsNeverLie: Georgia.