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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 154
Fresh: 79 | Rotten: 75

Trying too hard to be clever in a Pulp Fiction kind of way, this film succums to a convoluted plot, overly stylized characters and dizzying set design.

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 20

Trying too hard to be clever in a Pulp Fiction kind of way, this film succums to a convoluted plot, overly stylized characters and dizzying set design.

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Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 308,722

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Movie Info

An innocent man visiting a friend in New York City becomes embroiled in a dangerous series of events after being mistaken for the very man he has come to the city to see in director Paul McGuigan's labyrinthine murder mystery. Upon arriving at the empty apartment of his old friend Nick, the unassuming Slevin (Josh Hartnett) is troubled to hear the voice of his missing friend's next door neighbor Lindsay (Lucy Liu) expressing concern as to Nick's safety and whereabouts. When Slevin ventures into

R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Jason Smilovic

Sep 12, 2006

$22.4M

Weinstein Company

All Critics (161) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (82) | Rotten (78) | DVD (27)

With its diabolical ending, this is the movie equivalent of a crossword puzzle: fun, clever, and disposable.

December 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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It shrinks your perception of what movies can do.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comments (2)
New York Magazine
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Everything in it -- every confusion, every line of unspeakable dialogue, every red herring, every camera setup -- has been borrowed from some movie you've seen before.

April 19, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
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It finally all makes sense after a fashion, and I think and hope that you will be entertained by all the narrative legerdemain.

April 12, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
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I think it was entertaining as heck.

April 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
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Not as clever as it thinks, a little too clever for its own good, it's a fun ride, nonetheless.

April 7, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Lucky Number Slevin is a very clever film, probably too clever for its own good.

March 29, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

Elaborately hollow tough-guy arabesque

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

Smug and violent caper movie isn't for kids.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment (1)
Common Sense Media

It's the pace of the film that wins the day.

June 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

McGuigan has such a stylish eye that, even if you never quite care what's happening, you'll always be visually entertained.

March 24, 2007 Full Review Source: UGO | Comment

Essentially a crime noir thriller with a twist, Paul McGuigan's film is showy and sharp, whose witty dialogue is delivered with a shrug

November 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

One of the underappreciated gems of the 2006 movie season.

October 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | Comment

Tarantino's films work because there is usually some moral code at work, however fallen it might be. By comparison, Slevin is an unsettling exercise in amorality.

September 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Christianity Today | Comments (7)

Lucky Number Slevin moves along nicely, and it's easy to get caught up in all that style. But style and cheap tricks are two different things.

September 21, 2006 Comment
Reel.com

The chief problem with this film is that it pulls too many lousy tricks on viewers.

September 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Don't think too hard when seeing this movie because you'll spoil the surprises.

September 15, 2006 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

All in all, Slevin is as good a metaphor as any for Josh Hartnett's unpredictable acting career.

September 11, 2006 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | Comment

A gaseous movie experience gets a solid DVD treatment.

September 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Lucky Number Slevin

Lucky Number Slevin was a pretty action film that I thought didn't deserve the flack it received. I thought that the plot was great and that the cast delivered some good performances. Of course there were things that could have been done better, but for what it is; Lucky Number Slevin is a fun, mindless action film

October 28, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

At first, the movie's enjoyable but in the last hour, there are so many plot twists and turns that it completely kills the movie. You must understand, I love plot twists, but if there are 70 of them in the end, it kills it. Performances were good though.

August 16, 2011
Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

    1. Slevin: How did you find out?
    2. Mr. Goodkat: I'm a world class assassin fuckhead. How do you think I found out?
    – Submitted by Pesach F (3 months ago)
    1. The Boss: I'm the boss.
    2. Slevin: I thought he was the boss.
    3. The Boss: Why? Do we look alike?
    – Submitted by Nick C (8 months ago)
    1. Lindsey: Why do they call him the Rabbi?
    2. Slevin: Because he's a Rabbi...
    – Submitted by Sean O (9 months ago)
    1. Lindsey: I was just thinking that if you're still alive when I get back from work tonight... maybe, I don't know, we could go out to dinner or something?
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)
    1. Mr. Goodkat: Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third; that's a story.
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)

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