Smokin Aces 2: Assassins Ball is a 2010 action thriller film directed by P.J. Pesce and starring Tom Berenger, Vinnie Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Autumn Reeser, Keegan Connor Tracy, and Ernie Hudson.

The film is a prequel to Joe Carnahan s 2006 film Smokin Aces. The film centers on an FBI desk jockey who is targeted for murder by various hired assassins. The film was produced by Working Title Films, and was released direct-to-video on January 19, 2010 by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Plot

Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI who is informed by the Bureau of an assassination plot by a mysterious figure called Hal Leuco to have him killed on April 19 at exactly 3:00am. Among those who took the job include Ariella Martinez, a femme fatale who kills her victims with exotic poisons; Finbar McTeague, also known as The Surgeon for brutally torturing his victims; Fritz Tremor and his children Lester, Kaitlyn, and Baby Boy; and Lazlo Soot, an assassin and master of disguise. An FBI unit led by Special Agent Zane Baker secures Weed in a bunker underneath a Chicago lounge called the Little Jazz After Hours Club run by Special Agent Malcolm Little, with several lines of defense placed while various FBI agents pose as bar staff and patrons. The assassins enter the city separately and gather around the bar: McTeague and Martinez meeting inside as the Tremors kill the agents on the roof across from the bar in preparation to storm the bar while Kaitlyn makes her way to the bunker through the sewers. Soot kills the FBI s overwatch Agent Dumare in his hotel room and poses as him to gain access to the bunker.

Eight minutes before the deadline, McTeague and Martinez work together in an attempted hostage situation that turns into a Mexican standoff between them and the FBI agents. The standoff escalates into a shootout when the Tremors fire a bomb-strapped clown through the bar doors, Martinez killing Salerno and various agents before being fatally shot as the Tremors storm in while Little escapes the resulting bloodbath. McTeague takes the dying Martinez to a closet where he cradles her in his arms and then kills Baby Boy with a planted explosive before being gunned down by Lester and Fritz. Meanwhile, the disguised Soot escaped the firefight and tricks Abrego into letting him into the secure area, his disguise damaged while killing the agent. The Tremors breach the elevator and kill the last remaining agents outside the bunker. Soot takes an agent hostage and threatens to kill him unless Baker opens the bunker door, but Baker refuses. At the same time, the Tremors fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the door, which Soot narrowly escapes.

Kaitlyn, who has penetrated the tunnels next to the bunker, blows a hole in it and starts firing on the agents inside, trying to kill Weed. Nicholas is killed protecting him just before Baker kills Kaitlyn. With only two minutes to go, Weed suddenly tries to open the bunker door while revealing he has C4 hidden under his wheelchair and is rigged to a dead man switch. Baker is forced to shoot Redstone while attempting to talk Weed down. Weed says that he must die to kill the assassins for their heinous acts against America, believing he will be hailed as a patriotic hero after his death. Bunk realizes Weed will not back down and drags the wounded Redstone to the spider trap , a hole in the bunker s floor used to safeguard people from the bunker collapsing. Weed detonates the C4, destroying both the bunker and the bar with Baker unable to get Redstone into the spider trap in time. Fritz is critically wounded by the explosion and begs for help from Lester, who coldly kills him for abusing him for years.

Not long after, as Lester and Soot take advantage of emergency services to escape in the crowd, Baker emerges from the ruined bar to find himself and Little the only surviving the FBI agents. Baker is approached by Special Agent Anthony Vejar who asks him if he saw Weed die, revealing that Weed was actually a CIA elite black ops specialist who used the identity of Hal Leuco to use the assassins for covert missions over the years. Weed arranged the assassination ploy to gather the assassins in one place and have them killed, with Baker realizing Weed is still alive after Vejar mentions that Hal Leuco is short for Haliaeetus leucocephalus, the bald eagle s scientific name, which was part of a playing card set Weed played with in the bunker. Baker later intercepts Weed as he gets into a car, shooting him dead before walking away.

Cast

• Tom Berenger as Walter Weed, FBI intelligence analyst; Revealed to be Hal Leuco, short for Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Latin for bald eagle. Also known as Socrates .
• Clayne Crawford as FBI Supervisory Special Agent Zane Baker
• David Richmond-Peck as FBI Special Agent Dominic Dumare
• Jason Schombing as FBI Special Agent Abrego
• Jared Keeso as FBI Special Agent Nicholas
• Hrothgar Mathews as FBI Special Agent Redstone
• Christopher Michael Holley as FBI Special Agent Malcolm Little
• Merwin Mondesir as FBI Agent Osterberg
• Michael Edwards as FBI Agent Williamson
• Phillip Mitchell as FBI Agent Culham
• Douglas Chapman as FBI Agent O Keefe
• Grant Elliott as FBI Agent Patrch
• Kirsten Robek as FBI Analyst Jenny Lee
• Keegan Connor Tracy as FBI Analyst Vicky Salerno
• Sonja Bennett as FBI Analyst Jules Scott
• Ernie Hudson as FBI Special Agent Anthony Vejar
• Martha Higareda as Ariella Martinez
• Vinnie Jones as Finbar The Surgeon McTeague
• Autumn Reeser as Kaitlyn AK-47 Tremor
• Maury Sterling as Lester Tremor
• Michael Parks as Fritz Tremor
• C. Ernst Harth as Baby Boy Tremor
• Tommy Flanagan as Lazlo Soot
• Peter Benson as Marty Mecklen
• Damon Johnson as Milton White

Year	2010
ReleaseDate	2010-01-19
RuntimeMins	86
RuntimeStr	1h 26min
Plot	Hords of insane assassins (2 cute) gather in or near a bar waiting to kill an insignificant FBI pencil pusher at 3AM and collect $3M. He’s kept in a safe house/bunker nearby surrounded by FBI agents. Action awaits.
Directors	P.J. Pesce
Writers	Olatunde Osunsanmi, Olumide Odebunmi, Tom Abrams
Stars	Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan
Produced by	Joe Carnahan,Mike Elliott,Chris Foss,Greg Holstein
Music by	Tim Jones
Cinematography by	David Geddes
Film Editing by	Angela M. Catanzaro
Casting By	Stuart Aikins,Sean Cossey,Nancy Nayor
Production Design by	Chris August
Art Direction by	Anneke Van Oort
Set Decoration by	Shirley Inget
Costume Design by	Kerry Weinrauch
Makeup Department	Cindy Barlow,Codey Blair,Teegan Colby,Debra Johnson,Warren Kirshner,Toby Lindala,Glenn Martin,J.P. Mass,Ladan Mojallal,Miyuki Mori,Benson Musav,Nikita Pennock,Adina Shore
Production Management	Chris Foss,Jan Kikumoto
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Scott J. Ateah,Haylee Hubscher,Victor Landrie,Kit Marlatt,Robert K. Rogers,Sarah Rogers,Ken Shane,Stephanie Brown
Art Department	Bryan Anderson,Mike August,Adrian August-Keating,Dean Barker,Paul Birch,Nick Bishop,Al Bojsza,Daryl Bradwell,Gary Brolly,Jared Brown,Lisa Canzi,Steve Cass,Jim Cebrowski,Janice Clements,Daniel Collins,Nelson Dewey,Rowland Dyton,Michael Farrell,Salmon Harris,C. Ryan Hazenboom,Randal Holden,Chris Hume,Mark Jones,J. Todd Lawley,Adam Lowe,Glenn MacDonald,Mike McCarthy,Dave Molson,Nathalie Morin,Roy Obermann,Ian P. OBriain,Mark Prior,Kevin Santarosa,Chris Thompson,Claude Turcotte,Jon Watson,Jeff Westgarth,Neil Westlake,Jonathon Wood,Tony Xeros,Wendy Brotherston,Peter Charron,Tamara Gauthier,Leonardo Lara,Charlie Schrodt,Brendan Taylor,Billie-Jo Thomson,Kay Yamanaka
Sound Department	Julie Altus,Kristian Bailey,Steve Baine,Joe Barnett,Julio Carmona,Robert Deschaine,Peter Eliuk,Amy Giammarco,Gina Gyles,Craig Henighan,Martin Lacroix,Phil Lee,Skip Longfellow,Glenn T. Morgan,Peter Persaud,Gordon Sproule,Dean St. John,Patrick Stoltz,Tami Treadwell,Derek Vanderhorst,Mathew Waters,Ben Wilkins,Michael T. Williamson,John Bires,Arda Gulesserian,Frankie D. Harrison,Kimberly Jimenez,Paul Rodriguez,Kyle Seo,Rich Toenes,David Young
Special Effects by	Don Besse,Eric Lemay,Darren Marcoux,Robert Paller
Visual Effects by	Chris Bremble,Christy Richmond,Ron Simonson,Garman Herigstad,Fangfei Li,Geng Li,David Van Woert,Leo Vezzali
Stunts	Lloyd Adams,Fraser Aitcheson,Tonya Allen,Ed Anders,Brett Armstrong,Scott J. Ateah,Byron Brisco,Gavin Buhr,Janene Carleton,Colby Chartrand,Laura Lee Connery,Brent Connolly,Fraser Corbett,Joe Doserro,Ryan Ennis,Rikki Gagne,Lani Gelera,David Hooper,Ernie Jackson,Brad Kelly,Randy Lee,Brad Loree,Gaston Morrison,Matt Phillips,Jeff Sanca,Darryl Scheelar,Darren Shahlavi,Kimani Ray Smith,Anthony St. John,Sylvesta Stuart,Byron Brisco,Gavin Buhr,Rikki Gagne,James Rosenberg,Jeff Sanca,Owen Walstrom
Camera and Electrical Department	Fred Boyd,Brian Brook,Kyle Brown,Al Campbell,Kyle Christy,Stuart Collison,Lyle Contaoe,Cary Cooper,Andrew Coppin,Douglas Curran,Enrique Del Rio,Geoffrey James Dixon,Cameron Drinkle,Mike Dubé,Nazim Edeer,Chad Ferguson,Les Ford,Shane Geddes,Chris Gibbins,Wes Gilmore,Karl Herrmann,Colin Hillis,Steve Holland,Tony Hyland,Stephen Jackson,Leigh Jenkins,Matt Jonatschick,Dennis Jones,Jon Jovellanos,Spiro Karfakis,Gene Keigher,Jay Kohne,Kevin Lheritier,Jill MacLauchlan,Marty McInally,Finbar McMillan,Michael Methot,Chris Oben,Andrew Pedley,Laird Pierce,Michael Potts,Chuck Reid,Emmanuelle Rousseau,John Seale,Paul Sheridan,Steve Sherlock,Winona Sim,Johnny Walker,Barrie Wells,Scott Wells,Carrie Wilson,Richard Win,Michael Wrinch,James Dittiger,Dave Patterson
Casting Department	John Barba,Sara Brown,Kit Hayward,J.J. Ogilvy,Katie Piel
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Janice Devries,Alissa Kennedy,Ivan Lehner,Jody Leanne Petford,Shelly Shaw,Kai Siperko,Frances Sweeney,Maria Waterman,Daevina Danyluck
Editorial Department	Elena Bovetti,Eunice Choi,Chad Cole,Gregg Garvin,Colin Laurent-Bixler,Christy Richmond,Amber Taylor
Location Management	Matt Braun,Ken Brooker,Stephanie Brown,Andrzej Dec-Williams,Dane Dolan,Shawn Flynn,Nicolas Ismirnioglou,Susumu Kamimura,Dylan Kilgour,Myles Lennig,W. Robert Millar,Dana Olson,Lauren Richardson,Marijke Richman,Paul Russell,Brandon Williams,Sean Wolput,Jack Veldhuis
Music Department	Paul Di Franco,Jean-Paul DiFranco,Eugene Edwards,Fil Eisler,Julia Michels,Mary Parker,Cory Weeds,Tom Weir
Script and Continuity Department	Jeannine Dupuy,Nancy Eagles,Lisa Rerrie
Transportation Department	Thea Brown,Don Davey,Fred Davies,Bob Dennett,Andy Earle,George Fennell,Dan Ross Haveruk,Robert MacLean,Dave McDonald,Rick McLennan,Lori Merchant-O’Dwyer,Chris Mullen,Michael J. Murphy,Red Murphy,Frank Penko
Additional Crew	Christine Alexander,Carol Bailey,Jackie Bazan,Tim Clemente,James Cogswell,Morley Cruikshank,Paul Duke,Kent Fabian,Doreen Ferreira,Rob Fournier,Leila Fritz,Adam Hauck,Laurie A. Hoover,Kim Howes,Garnett Humenick,Nathan Jensen,Gordon Juli,Brynn Kinnee,David Lee,Louisa Main,Jane Mason,Rick Mearns,Finn Michael,Lee Anne Muldoon,Evan Nicholas,Rick Nicholson,Kirsty Robinson-Ward,Darren Shmyr,David M. Taylor,Teresa Toews,Chris Turner,Chad F. Verigin,Kevin Corazza,Fabiana Dominguez,Patti Jackson,Aiden Zanini
Thanks	David Atkins,Dennis Bartok,David Bixler,Simon Black,Frederick Boyle,Bill Bromiley,Billy Burnette,Chris Cochran,Roger Corman,Ezra Cornell,Catherine Cyran,Paul D’Acri,Kelly Dunlap,Samuel Eels,Larry Fong,Jerry Garcia,Joseph P. Genier,John Gilbert,Rodger Halston,Curtis Hanson,Alex Holstein,Ben Holstein,Jerry P. Jacobs,Nick Jones,Andy Koyama,Nathan Larkin-Connolly,Scott P. Levy,David Mackay,Mike Millette,Louis Morneau,John F. Moroney,Paolo Mcleod Morris Pesce,Bill Morris,Karen Morris,Susan Morris,Gregory Morton,Bryan Noffz,Justin Pittman,John Putch,Paul Stoilen,Tom Teotico,Gina Tien,Ray Tien,Mike Upton,Craig A. Weller
Genres	Action, Comedy, Crime
Companies	Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Working Title Films, Always Split Aces Productions
Countries	USA, Canada
Languages	English
ContentRating	R
ImDbRating	5
ImDbRatingVotes	13778
Keywords	slow motion scene,saxophone,prequel,murder of a priest,wheelchair