Lucky Number Slevin [HD DVD]

Buy This Item Lucky Number Slevin [HD DVD] by The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment  Available from Amazon  $8.95  on 10-11-2008     How boring it is to label a movie Tarantino-esque anymore. The thing is, when it comes to an offering like <i>Lucky Number Slevin</i>, 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. <i>Lucky Number Slevin</i> isn't quite up to par with similarly brainy thrillers like <i>Memento</i> and <i>The Usual Suspects</i>, but the prospect of seeing it again in order to get your bearings is just as appealing. <i>--Ted Fry</i> Reader Reviews I just watched the HD version of this movie. Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley are just wrong the cold blooded gangster types. They appear more fatherly gentlemen than nasty mobster. The movie is supposed to be violent, yet I am not on bit scared or repulsed. The characters are just too nice. A good movie is one the will have the audience hating the bad guy and connecting with the good guy or the victim. This one does neither for me. I have seen better crime thrillers, way better.

Lucky Number Slevin [HD DVD] Available from Amazon Price: $8.95 Updated on 10-11-2008.

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