Discover The Best Movies and TV Shows Like Smokin’ Aces

In Lake Tahoe, fading Las Vegas illusionist and low-level mob informant Buddy "Aces" Israel agrees to testify against his former employer, powerful crime boss Primo Sparazza. Enraged by the betrayal, Sparazza issues a million-dollar contract with a unique stipulation: he wants Buddy’s heart delivered in a wooden box. This lucrative bounty attracts a chaotic army of eccentric killers, all descending on the penthouse suite of the Nomad Hotel.Simultaneously, the FBI learns of the hit. Bureau Director Stanley Locke tasks veteran agents Richard Messner and Donald Carruthers with extracting Buddy and securing his cooperation before he is eliminated. Unbeknownst to the agents, they are walking into a deeply compromised situation.As the deadline approaches, the hotel transforms into a bloody free-for-all. A trio of female mercenaries—Georgia Sykes, Sharice Watters, and Darwin Flick—infiltrate the building, while neon-soaked psycho Pasquale "Paz" Acosta and ruthless master of disguise Lazlo Soot bring their own deadly brands of chaos. Meanwhile, independently operating neo-Nazi brothers Julian, Hugo, and Acre Tremor clash with the FBI in the lobby, leading to a massive, explosive shootout that leaves agent Carruthers mortally wounded.Amidst the escalating violence, a separate crew of professional fixers—Bowers, Bebris, and Elmore—are revealed to be working a secret angle. They have been hired by Buddy’s bail bondsmen to protect him, but primarily because Buddy’s blood contains a rare genetic trait that makes him uniquely valuable to a shadowy syndicate, complicating Sparazza’s simple execution order.As Messner fights his way through the carnage to reach the penthouse, he discovers Buddy locked in a drug-addled stupor, terrified and accepting of his impending death. Messner manages to secure him, but not before a rogue assassin breaches the room. In the ensuing chaos, it is revealed that Sparazza’s true motivation for wanting Buddy dead isn’t just revenge; Buddy knows the mob boss’s actual identity—a secret Sparazza cannot allow to survive.The film culminates in a tragic, twist-filled climax. Buddy is critically wounded, and the FBI agents realize the operation has been manipulated from the very top. Ultimately, Buddy is placed on life support, brain-dead, while an undercover Sparazza infiltrates the hospital to finish the job, only to be ambushed and killed by Agent Messner. In the aftermath, with the bounty hunters scattered or dead, the FBI decides to quietly pull the plug on Buddy, ending the circus of violence.