Smoke is a mildly pleasing film with a mildly pleasing script that gives great actors mildly pleasing characters to play. It started off with potential, and every so often it would approach that potential and then pull back a little, as if afraid to take a risk. My favorite part was near the beginning, where William Hurt's character flips through a book of photographs taken at the same time every day of the same place as Harvey Keitel talks over the images. It was absolutely beautiful. The rest had snippets of genius, but nothing fulfilling.
The movie is a slice-of-life intertwining tale of the many people who interact with Harvey Keitel inside of and outside of his cigar and tobacco shop. Because there is no real main conflict, you are just pulled along, waiting for the next thing to happen without any expectations. Quite frankly, it gets a little boring. The editing sometimes felt amateurish and sometimes felt pretentious. Though I really liked some of the cinematography, most of it was rather bland and watery. All in all, it's not bad, but there's no real point in going out of your way to watch it.IMDb link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0114478/