Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago at Mar 1 19:07

Slevin Kelevra & Mr Goodcat want to hope & pray that Nick Fisher doesn't have a son who grows up wanting to revenge the death of his father.

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 1 year ago at Oct 28 10:52

''Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third; that's a story.'' A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him. Josh Hartnett: Slevin Kelevra Like many stories revolving around killing and revenge, Lucky Number Slevin likes to have everything revealed the further and deeper you descend into it. It's a applaud-able effort in screen writing, plot twists and a puzzle of revelations revealed. Director Paul McGuigan succeeds i...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 2 years, 7 months ago at Apr 20 6:48

I had to shut this one off about half way. I'm baffled how people can dare compare this to 'Usual Suspects' or 'Two Smoking Guns'. The only thing in common is violent deaths and gangster related plot. The acting (or lack thereof) of Hartnett hasn't been this bad since 'Pearl Harbor', and Lucy Liu, well she still can't act if her life depended on it. If a movie blows two aspects, acting and plot, before the first half is over, I have to shut it off. If rest of movie finally got good, my apologies. I did hear the ending was absolutely amazing, but to me, a movie can't be good with just great start (it was) and great ending, if the 90% in between is complete crap. The problem with Hartnett's acting was the complete idiocy of his lines. If you're being summoned to a gangster boss's ...Read more

Rating : 3/10

Posted : 2 years, 8 months ago at Mar 18 15:52

If you like cool gangster movies with plot twists and suprising endings, this is for you. Reminded me of "usual suspects" and "two smoking guns".


Rating : 9/10