“How do you light a man on fire, blow seven others to bits, choreograph a gun battle with 20 shooters, discharge 400 special-effects squibs, shatter a panoramic hotel window, separate an FBI agent’s torso from his waist, then show a neo-Nazi to his seat — which happens to be a chain saw — all in mere minutes?” So reads Sheigh Crabtree‘s opening graph in her 1.14.07 L.A. Times piece about Joe Carnahan‘s choreography of a big final sequence in Smokin’ Aces (Universal, 1.26). Show a Nazi to his seat which happens to be a chainsaw….?
