Lucky Number Slevin [Blu-ray] | Danny Aiello, Ben Kingsley

Lucky Number Slevin [Blu-ray] | Danny Aiello, Ben Kingsley | "Everybody looks right, and I go left"

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	Lucky Number Slevin [Blu-ray] Danny Aiello, Ben Kingsley Weinstein Company, 2008 average customer review:based on 150 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

So very very good

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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"Everybody looks right, and I go left"

Lucky Number Slevin is a stylish little brain bender of a movie. It's fun, smart, and slick, full of clever plot twists and funhouse mirror dynamics. The plot takes a well-known cliché (mistaken identity) and inverts it, turning audience expectations inside out with a few narrative flicks of the wrist. It's a crime flick with a penchant for sharp, off kilter dialogue, stylistic left turns, and dark humor. The characters, despite their unsavory professions, are memorable and likeable. And since people's exact motivations are difficult to suss out (until the end, anyway), you never really know which ones are bad guys and which ones are good guys, so you get to root for `em all. The story sinks its hooks into the viewer from the credits sequence, tightening its grip with a beguiling (and heartbreaking) exposition, and refusing to let go until the very end.

And then there's the cast: Morgan Freeman and (Sir) Ben Kingsley as two warring crime bosses, Bruce Willis as a wily, sinister, and charismatic assassin, Josh Hartnett (he's really good in this one) as the instantly endearing wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time protagonist, and Lucy Liu (she's awesome in this one) as his bubbly love interest. Now that, my friends, is a dream team! I won't go too far into each individual player's virtues, but suffice to say that each one is absolutely perfect for his or her respective role.

Most telling is the fact that despite its ludicrously high body count (you'd have better odds of living through a James Bond movie climax as a jumpsuited henchman), Lucky Number Slevin is still a feel-good movie. You can't help but smile at its climactic scenes and wrenching twists. Even its stylish meta-cinematic references to classic mistaken identity and action films come off as smart and good-natured rather than snobby or pretentious.

All of which to say, it'd be incredibly easy to compare Lucky Number Slevin to a Tarantino film. It wouldn't be off the mark, either.

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Simply Brilliant

Lucky # Slevin, to me is a movie that I orignially didn't care to see, but one day I finally watched it and I was pretty impressed. It has a great story, and everything seems to get worked out and connected one way or another. It is a smart movie that you really have to follow to get the true enjoyment of putting things together before it does it for you at the end to make sense of the whole thing. It is a clever movie with a decent cast, and is worth watching.

A Good Crime Story of Twists and Illusions

If you want a good film to take your mind off your own problems and to challenge your intellect. Then this is a worthy contender for your attention and consideration. It is well worth the time & coin.
The ending is 1st rate!

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Wait..It Really Is Good!

Thank all that is good that the Hollywood publicity machine overlooked this film, thus creating a magnificent sleeper hit. I was pleasantly surprised with this film. It takes the viewer on a terrific ride through mobsters and mayhem that never travels stereotypical paths. Well worth the watch.

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