Lucky Number Slevin [HD DVD]

Lucky Number Slevin [HD DVD]
by Paul McGuigan

Lucky Number Slevin [HD DVD]

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Actor: Ben Kingsley, Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman
Director: Paul McGuigan
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC VIDEO DIST.
Producer: A.J. Dix
Producer: Andreas Grosch
Producer: Andreas Schmid
Producer: Anthony Rhulen
Producer: Charles Jude Feuer
Producer: Chris Roberts
Writer: Jason Smilovic
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 79501
Studio: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
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Directed by Paul McGuigan, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN is a mistaken identity thriller starring Josh Hartnett as a guy who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. With boldly colored sets covered in graphic wallpaper, the film has an almost comicbook-like feel, the emphasis being on visual entertainment rather than believability. When Slevin (Hartnett) shows up at his friend Nick s apartment in Manh

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Movie Review: So very very good
Summary: 5 Stars

The plot has already been outlined by other reviewers, so I'll just add to the chorus of general praise here. First of all, hats off to Jason Smilovic for writing such a smart script with lots of good twists and so many memorable lines. This is one of those movies that I'll just pop while I'm doing housework so I've seen it (or at least heard it) multiple times now, and I still laugh out loud even though I can pretty much recite the dialogue with the characters at this point. Everybody's at the top of their game in this one, especially the underrated Hartnett, who has now made a string of European-style movies that have gone woefully under-appreciated by American audiences. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Wicker Park...and Mozart and the Whale...even 40 Days and 40 Nights could've worked as a French farce.) I'm just heartbroken this wasn't a bigger hit, if only so that I could repeat all the great lines and people would catch the reference...which they don't.

Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Ben Kingsley, Hartnett, a wonderful Lucy Liu (her best role, I'd argue), a smart and entertaining script, well-directed, stylishly produced...I am at a loss to understand why the audience didn't materialize. This is the sort of movie that must make a studio executive scream in confused anguish. At any rate, here's your chance to catch up on one of the best crime thrillers in recent memory. You should check it out (and that's for sure).

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How boring it is to label a movie Tarantino-esque anymore. The thing is, when it comes to an offering like Lucky Number Slevin, the shoe fits, and the result is anything but boring. Gruesome killings, arid wit, self-reflexive pop culture references, an A-list cast, and style-heavy production values abound, which gives the proceedings an epoxy bond that seals the Q.T. homage factor. Josh Hartnett--who spends a lot of buffed-up time with his shirt off--is Slevin Kelevra, a hapless fellow visiting his New York friend Nick. But Nick has disappeared, which sets off a mistaken-identity thrill ride when two goons grab Slevin (he's in Nick's apartment so he must be Nick) and take him to their crime lord boss, the Boss (Morgan Freeman). The Boss doesn't care about Slevin's wrong-man protests; he just wants the $96,000 Nick owes him. In one of many offers he can't refuse, Slevin has to agree to murder the son of the Boss's felonious arch rival, the Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) or take the bullet himself. But Slevin turns out to be no ordinary patsy. Thrown into the ingeniously designed production, clever plot twists, and academic nods to Bond, Hitchcock, and obscure old cartoons are Lucy Liu as a sexy coroner, Stanley Tucci as an obsessed cop, and Bruce Willis as a wily hit man with his finger in many pots. With so much visual and narrative trickery, there's almost too much to absorb in one viewing of this convoluted jigsaw puzzle of revenge and entertaining mayhem. Lucky Number Slevin isn't quite up to par with similarly brainy thrillers like Memento and The Usual Suspects, but the prospect of seeing it again in order to get your bearings is just as appealing. --Ted Fry

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