Lucky Number Slevin

2.00
    Lucky Number Slevin
    2006

    Synopsis

    Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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    Cast

    • Josh HartnettSlevin
    • Morgan FreemanThe Boss
    • Ben KingsleyThe Rabbi
    • Lucy LiuLindsey
    • Bruce WillisMr. Goodkat
    • Stanley TucciDet. Brikowski
    • Mykelti WilliamsonSloe
    • Peter OuterbridgeDumbrowski
    • Michael RubenfeldYitzchok
    • Kevin ChamberlinMarty

    Recommendations

    • 75

      ReelViews

      Some of what occurs in Lucky Number Slevin is done with a wink and a nod, although McGuinan (á là Tarantino) doesn't skimp on the gore.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The film is stylish as hell with sharp dialogue, a tongue-in-cheek plot and visual and editing razzle-dazzle.
    • 70

      Time

      The story never runs completely off the rails and is, in any event, just a pretext for a lot of very sharp badinage by Jason Smilovic--a screenwriter who would have been at home writing for Cary Grant--for yards of terrific movie acting and for some well-timed direction by Paul McGuigan.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      A thriller that holds less interest - and less water - the more it reveals about what's actually going on.
    • 60

      Variety

      Thoroughly -- and sometimes justifiably -- infatuated with its own cleverness, this mistaken-identity thriller delights in narrative complication and Tarantino-esque self-awareness.
    • 60

      Film Threat

      Unfortunately, director Paul McGuigan tries to make it all serious at the end, and this isn't the kind of story that should be taken seriously.
    • 58

      The A.V. Club

      It's all superficially enjoyable, right up to the point where the big picture starts coming into focus and it's not worth looking anymore.
    • 50

      Rolling Stone

      If "Pulp Fiction" impregnated "The Usual Suspects," the spawn would look a lot like Lucky Number Slevin. Great genes, but you keep wondering when the kid is going to grow up and find an identity of his own.

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