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Lucky # Slevin (2006)


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Five out of Five

Movie

Rating: R (strong violence, sexuality and language)
Length: 109 minutes

Video

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1

Captions

English, Spanish

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Plot

Two mob boss leaders get into a war and a man who's mistaken for somebody else is drug into the middle.

Pros

This movie has tons of stars and a very Tarantino-like script; well-written, clever and very witty. The two mob leaders are played by two of the best actors in Hollywood, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley. Bruce Willis is the cool hit man for hire and Josh Hartnett is the unlucky guy trapped in a drama that wasn't of his making. And last, but certainly not least, is the very lovely and feisty Lucy Lui in a role that had to have been as much fun for her to perform as it was for us to watch. The conversation in the beginning between Hartnett and is a classic; I loved it when she brought up the reference to Columbo; my favorite TV detective.

Cons

Some of the deleted scenes really needed to stay in the movie; maybe we'll get lucky and they'll do a Director's/Extended Cut on Blu-Ray one day.

Extras

  • Audio Commentary with Director Paul McGuigan
  • Audio Commentary with Actors Josh Hartnett and Lucy Liu and Writer Jason Smilovic
  • "Making Lucky Number Slevin" Featurette
  • Deleted Scenes

Recommendation

I know a movie is really good when after watching it once and thinking about it for a few minutes as the credit rolls, my first reaction is to pick up the remote and start the movie all over again. I've seen this film three times in the last four days and it will certainly make my "movies to watch when I'm not sure what to watch" rotation. I love it when a movie like this isn't dumbed down so "everyone" can get it.

Director

Paul McGuigan   [Wicker Park]

Actors

Kevin Chamberlin - Marty
[Suspect Zero]
Dmitry Chepovetsky - Bodyguard #2
[K-19: The Widowmaker]
Morgan Freeman - The Boss
[Amistad, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Deep Impact, Dreamcatcher, Glory, Outbreak, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Se7en, The Shawshank Redemption, The Sum of All Fears, Unforgiven]
Scott Gibson - Max
[Breach]
Josh Hartnett - Slevin Kelevra
[30 Days of Night, Black Hawk Down, Halloween H2O, Pearl Harbor]
Sam Jaeger - Nick Fisher
[Behind Enemy Lines, Hart's War]
Daniel Kash - Bodyguard #1
[Diary of the Dead]
Ben Kingsley - The Rabbi
[Bloodrayne, Bugsy, Dave, House of Sand and Fog, Schindler's List, Species, Suspect Zero, You Kill Me]
Lucy Liu - Lindsey
[Charlie's Angels, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Domino, Kill Bill Vol 1, Payback, Rise: Blood Hunter, Shanghai Noon]
Dorian Missick - Elvis
Peter Outerbridge - Det. Dumbrowski
[Mission to Mars]
Michael Rubenfeld - Yitzchok
Stanley Tucci - Det. Brikowski
[Conspiracy, The Core]
Mykelti Williamson - Sloe
[After the Sunset, Con Air, Forrest Gump, Heat, Streets of Fire]
Bruce Willis - Mr. Goodkat
[Armageddon, Bandits, Die Hard I/II/III, The Fifth Element, Hart's War, Planet Terror, Pulp Fiction, The Siege, Sin City, The Sixth Sense, Tears of the Sun, Twelve Monkeys, Unbreakable]

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