Useless Movie Trivia
Smokin Aces
Memorable Quotes
Jack Dupree: How about the Tremor brothers? Three of them; same skank mom, different deadbeat dads. They're used for that suicide-style, kamikaze shit. Heard about that dinner club in Cleveland?
"Pistol" Pete Deeks: That got squat-fucked, shot-to-shit, slashed, and burned?
Hollis Elmore: What happened?
Jack Dupree: Well the Tremor brothers go rip-shit riot on the whole fucking place. Seven dead, twenty-eight wounded. Just to get this one fucking guy. In the course of the melee, one of them gets shot in the neck - he passes out. Another one catches blowback from a jammed piece - he's temporarily blinded. Third one gets a bullet lodged in his back - he can't walk. They're speed-freak, neo-Nazi assholes who read and recite Mein Kampf like it was Mother Goose. They're meaner than shit, they're dumber than hell, and these motherfuckers will go megaton at the drop of a hat.
Trivia
Maile's Restaurant (The Tremor Brothers shoot-out at the beginning of the film) is named after director Joe Carnahan's daughter, Maile.
Rockne's Plumbing (Lazlo Soot's getaway van at the beginning of the film) is named after director Joe Carnahan's son, Rockne.
When Jack Dupree is talking about Buddy Israel it shows a bank robbery going on. For a split second you see a man with a beard and sunglasses leaning his back on a truck yelling out and holding a machine gun. This is Carnahan.
The FBI helicopter is registration N350SC and is the same helicopter that is used to deliver Nelly Furtado to the rooftop in her video "Say it Right".
The FBI helicopter N350SC is used in the Nicolas Cage movie Next (2007).
The shot with Ben Affleck in the bar, where he knocks the eight-ball in and continues with his monologue, took over 20 shots, mainly because Affleck couldn't make the shot. When he finally did make it, he couldn't say his lines because he was laughing so hard about finally making it.
It is the feature film debuts of both R&B artist Alicia Keys and rapper Common.
The song "Ace of Spades" by the metal group Motörhead is played in the beginning of the film, introducing the Tremors, the neo-Nazi redneck bounty hunters.
The song in the final credits is "Play Your Cards Right" by Common, who also stars in the film.
All the conversations by Agent Carruthers and Agent Messner in the surveillance van scene were improvised.
The Tremor brothers car is a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville.
Goofs
When the hitman Lazlo Soot disguises himself as Hugo, there is a rather large blood stain in the middle of his shirt. Later when he ditches the disguise the white shirt has no blood stain on it at all.
When the camera pan out after Watters emptied the sniper rifle, the rifle had no magazine in the receiver. But later when the FBI stormed the room the rifle had a magazine attached.
When Watters empties the sniper rifle, count how many shots she gets off. The Barrett M107 only has a 10 round magazine, even if she has one chambered she still can't get off the 13 shots that she does!
At one point, Heller is said to have been OSS (Office of Strategic Services) before he was FBI. At another point, it is said that his undercover op predates the second world war. This is impossible, as the OSS was founded in 1942.
When Agent Messner unloads his duty weapon in the hospital, he ejects a live round. The sound of the round hitting the floor, though, is that of empty brass.
In the scene where Sir Ivy tries to kill Buddy Israel, Ivy fires a total of 10 shots from his revolver. Revolvers only carry 5 or 6 rounds.
Box Office Info for the USA
Budget: $17,000,000
Opening Weekend: $14,638,755 (USA) (28 January 2007) (2,218 Screens)
Gross: $35,662,731
Filming Dates: October 24, 2005 to December 15, 2005
Filming Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
South Lake Tahoe, California, USA