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.
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
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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
Apr 7, 2006 Wide
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.
It shrinks your perception of what movies can do.
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.
It finally all makes sense after a fashion, and I think and hope that you will be entertained by all the narrative legerdemain.
I think it was entertaining as heck.
Not as clever as it thinks, a little too clever for its own good, it's a fun ride, nonetheless.
Lucky Number Slevin is a very clever film, probably too clever for its own good.
Elaborately hollow tough-guy arabesque
Smug and violent caper movie isn't for kids.
It's the pace of the film that wins the day.
McGuigan has such a stylish eye that, even if you never quite care what's happening, you'll always be visually entertained.
Essentially a crime noir thriller with a twist, Paul McGuigan's film is showy and sharp, whose witty dialogue is delivered with a shrug
One of the underappreciated gems of the 2006 movie season.
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.
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.
The chief problem with this film is that it pulls too many lousy tricks on viewers.
Don't think too hard when seeing this movie because you'll spoil the surprises.
All in all, Slevin is as good a metaphor as any for Josh Hartnett's unpredictable acting career.
A gaseous movie experience gets a solid DVD treatment.
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
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, 2011Super Reviewer
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