Review of Lucky Number Slevin (2006) by Adam M — 08 Jun 2011
Some entertaining stretches of dialogue. Lots of very original shots to set a noir feel. The first half of the movie is a stressful wrong-man scenario, where the wrong man here is too nonplussed to come to his own defense. I wouldn't have expected Lucy Liu in her role, but she does better than anyone in the movie. Bruce Willis looks like he's doing lazy posing, which is unexpected.
The second half of the movie is a dragged out scenario from recent graduates with a B.A. in The Usual Suspects. A good movie for college graduates who think the game is corrupt and they can run it, like if Bruce Wayne wanted to become the Kingpin of Crime.
I guess it's also a good movie for people who want their murder scenes more snappy, since in both halves, people are murdered in unexpected ways and the camera shows it to us in unexpected ways. By the end, the writers and director burn themselves out and they're just suffocating people in front of us.
This review of Lucky Number Slevin (2006) was written by Adam M on 08 Jun 2011.
Lucky Number Slevin has generally received very positive reviews.
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