Creative Industries Week 8:Review A Film, Game or Animation

The film I will be reviewing is Smokin Ace's 2 Assassins’' Ball is a direct-to-DVD action crime film, a prequel to the theatrical released Smokin Aces and is about a FBI office worker who has a bounty on his head which causes him to be a target for various assassins.

After watching the first Smokin Aces film I had high expectations on the second but realising that it would be a direct to DVD film I knew not to have high hopes as direct to DVD films are most of the time a flop and so I had the expectation that this would involve the same amount if not more of shooting assassinations but as I had seen the movie had minimum amount of assassination until you had the end scene which had the remaining assassins fighting it out against each other, where as the first movie had some assassins intercepting each other before the end causing multiple amounts of battles.

Comparing the storylines between the movies is similar in the fact that there were main people who had a bounty on their heads and had assassins after them whilst FBI agents were there to protect them and had a twist at the end, but my view is that with the storylines being really good the first movie was more better because the action scenes with the scenes were you found more out about the story, where as the second had a 2 or 3 interceptions and one quick final battle and with that the second film had it's moments such as the twist at the end and how it left the door open for another which would excite me if they live up to or improve from the first film.

There is a major difference between both films which cuts into how much they can achieve and that is the budget and with the second film being a direct-to-DVD film it has a lower budget causing a limit on special effects where as a theatrical release has a higher budget and also with a theatrical major acting names know that with a direct-to-DVD film there will only be a certain amount of people who would watch a direct-to-DVD film making the second film have a low standard because the budget and big named actors, which I only knew Vinnie Jones.

My overall judgment of the film is that it's a decent movie because with a brilliant storyline it’s only missing the improvements on the action scenes but the addition of Vinnie Jones known for his action movies could have given this film more action but instead had a lower role however the story had enough motive for it to be made but with a twist at the end had me wanting more and if they improve on the low standard action and more scenes involving the assassins I would watching another instalment in the Smokin Aces films but till then the first was definitely better then the second but being a direct-to-DVD film that’s would was half expected.