Lucky Number Slevin

Check out this cast: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci. Yeah, I would certainly expect something big from "Lucky Number Slevin" seeing as how it's stocked with some great actors, and Josh Hartnett. Alas, "Slevin" gets too cocky for its own good with more twists than a corkscrew roller coaster. You won't want to go again after this ride.

Hartnett is Slevin, a man mistaken by rival crime bosses to be Nick Fisher. Fisher owes The Boss (Freeman) nearly $100,000, who looks to get his payment out of Fisher by forcing him to kill the son of The Rabbi (Kingsley). Meanwhile, Fisher also owes The Rabbi over $30,000. Oh, and both men would prefer if the other was dead. Despite his protests to not being Fisher, Slevin is forced to work both sides of the street in order to stay alive. Meanwhile we have Mr. Goodkat (Willis), a professional assassin hired to make sure everything goes down accordingly.

Still with me? Well hang on, because just when you think you have it figured out, you realize you really have no clue. Throughout the movie, the story is told in flashbacks with tangents that may or may not have anything to do with the film. To tell you any more than this would be to tell too much. "Lucky Number Slevin" tries to be a crafty Tarantino film, but they forgot to invite Quentin. Initially, I was going to give this a B, but the more I think about it, the less and less I like it. "Lucky Number Slevin" leaves the gate in a flash, but ends up stumbling its way across the finish line. I give it a C+.

"Lucky Number Slevin" is rated R with a running time of 110 minutes.