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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 mansion and he suspects you stole $96,000 of his money, why would you make 5th grade jokes towards him?
Boss: They call him the fairy.
Slevin: What do you mean?
Boss: Because he is a fairy.
Slevin: You mean with wings, flying around in the forest? (said with big smirk on his face)
Boss: No, because he's a homosexual.
How completely retarded.
And the plot??
Come on. A black boss feuding with a Rabbi? They each have apartment building right across street, and plan to kill each other? They each get an idiotic Hartnett to go kill the other guy? There may be huge twists and unexpected endings, but if you start with an asinine plot that is as loose as Paris Hilton, you can take and twist the plot any which way and still make it fit original plot. That's not clever writing; that's just setting plot expectations so low at the beginning that anything will shock you by the end.
3/10
