It sounded quite realistic to Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys.Keys, in her inaugural role in film, plays bad girl/street assassin Georgia Sykes. On approaching her for the part, Chasin recalls, “I’m not sure Alicia ever thought she’d make her film debut playing a girl packing a gun, dressed like a hooker. I credit her for flyingin the face of that and saying, ‘My audience knows me for who I am as a singer, but I’m going to give them something unexpected for my turn as an actress.’”
Says Keys of her initial reaction to the script: “The more I read it, the more intrigued I became. It was not only so interesting that each character had its own life, butI loved the way that every story combined into the next story. Everything you thought that it was, it was not. By the time I got to the end, I was enamored.”
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Sleaze personified, illusionist Aces (Jeremy Piven) grew up in a world full of card sharks, gamblers, killers and thugs. By 21, he was keeping company with major criminal muscle -- headlining sold-out shows at MGM's main room. After becoming the unofficial mascot for the Vegas mob, Aces started believing his own press and buying into the hype. He decides to showcase his showbiz power and parlay it into a life of crime.
He wants to be his own mob boss...the movies make it look so easy. What Aces winds up doing is running afoul of the very organization that had taken him in, and his one-time benefactor, mob power broker Primo Sparazza, becomes his mortal enemy.Rumor of a $1,000,000 hit fee, fronted by Sparazza, hits the streets and spreads far and wide, attracting an assortment of degenerate psychopaths and assassins - all gunning for the bounty on his head. Apparently, Aces has agreed to turn state's evidence against his criminal cronies in Vegas...in order to save himself from life in prison.
The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-time target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody, under the supervision of two agents dispatched to Aces' hideout. With all eyes on Lake Tahoe, a rogues' gallery of killers collides in a mad race to the Nomad Casino penthouse suite, where they hope to hit the jackpot and rub out Aces.
This film has been rated RATED R by the MPAA for strong bloody violence, pervasive language, some nudity and drug use
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