Fantastic!!

I knew I was going to like this film but not half as much as I actually did. It totally surprised me. I absolutely loved it. It kicks some serious ass which is what I love about some films. It is a very violent film with a lot of blood but it is very realistic in a sexual way especially when Slevin caught his girlfriend having sex with another man. It is a film that you get totally gripped with all the way through. I find it to be a totally amazing film that is just a really cool film as well. This film has a really powerful and unexpected twist that left me reeled in shock. This film now has one of the best ensemble cast of all time in my opinion. I really love all 5 actors within it. Two of them are Oscar winners and the other three are really famous actors with different talents.


Josh Hartnett has yet to disappoint me in any film. He probably isn't the perfect actor to portray Slevin but is the closest to that rank. Hartnett is an actor who is really good at playing hard-hitting characters in hard, aggressive films as well as being a heart throb. He is one of the young actors who I could see earning an Oscar or two in the future. Another actor around that age Heath Ledger is another after earning a posthumous Oscar only for the second time in cinema history for acting. Hartnett has been in very dark films and has played characters that are very cool in my mind. Bruce Willis was awesome as Mr. Goodkat. He reminds me a bit of Léon in the 1994 film Léon: The Professional. Both Willis and Hartnett appeared in Sin City together one year before. Lucy Liu was absolutely brilliant as Lindsey who is a doctor and the girlfriend of Slevin. She is an actress of being in action films such as Kill Bill and Charlie's Angels but her role as Lindsey is a new kind of role for her. I don't think I've ever seen her portray a character like Lindsey before. I think it is the first time that Liu has portrayed such a simple and ordinary modern day character. The two Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley portray two criminals that enemies. Both of their characters names are like names from Sin City: The Boss (Freeman) and The Rabbi (Kingsley). I love both actors and the films they have been in together but they added a lot of awesome realistic moments between the characters.


The director has created a masterpiece in my mind. It is one of the best cult films of the decade or maybe even of all time. The way the characters were named and in some ways of the way it was filmed reminded me quite a bit of Sin City. I know obviously that Lucky Number Slevin isn't in that same kind of colour as Sin City but those reasons that I said about the characters reminded me of Sin City. I would have suggested that this would have been a good film from directors like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez or David Fincher.


Lucky Number Slevin is now in my opinion one of the best films of 2006 and one of the most underrated films of that year as well as of all time. It has a very underrated ensemble cast as well. It isn't the best from any of the cast members but they are all solid performances. It is a film of pure entertainment as well as excellent filmmaking. In my mind, Lucky Number Slevin is a film that you would enjoy time and time again.

8/10