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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:78
Rotten:73
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Apr 7, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $22,438,650
Synopsis: Directed by Paul McGuigan, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN is a mistaken identity thriller starring Josh Hartnett as a guy who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. With boldly colored sets covered in... [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu
Director: Paul McGuigan
Lucky Number Slevin, boosted as it is by a serious A-list ensemble cast and a heavy dose of intrigue, crosses the unfortunate line between clever and pretentious, rendering itself tiresome long before its heavily built-up denouement.
It feels more like a series of bits rather than a coherent narrative, and director Paul McGuigan paces it this way; you never feel as if the entire movie has coalesced, though many of the individual parts are a lot of fun.
Eventually, having gone along for the ride, we feel taken for a ride.
Jason Smilovic's screenplay for Paul McGuigan's Lucky Number Slevin would be too clever for its own good if it weren't so ... darn clever.
Top CriticIf Lucky Number Slevin was as good as it is clever, we'd be talking four stars here.
Lucky Number Slevin definitely gives the old cerebrum a jolt, but it's more of a steroid shot than a real gray-matter workout.
Top CriticBottom line, this is thoroughly entertaining. This is the best role of Hartnett's career and he doesn't disappoint.
Cleverly written, stylized to within an inch of its life and ultimately forgettable.
It blew me away
In real life, that towel would drop as Slevin waltzes around New York. The fact that it doesn’t is the first clue that we are being treated to some blatant, playful artifice.
Little more than a clever puzzle: though the pieces ultimately fit together, when fully revealed the picture proves less than meets the eye.
Fans will compare it to Pulp Fiction or The Usual Suspects, but it's more like one of their knockoffs, glib enough to be diverting and nothing more.
What at first appears to be heading into Quentin Tarantino or Guy Ritchie turf steadily finds its own violent voice
Tarantinoid...the machinations are all familiar enough that your unoccupied brain may drift off to wonder how Hartnett's made a career out of bad haircuts.
It's a wild ride with great bad guys and super cool good guys, an action-comedy-thriller that will keep you guessing and keep you entertained. You'll be the lucky one if you check this out.
[A] crime melodrama with more twists and turns in it then a dish of noodles... It's not quite The Usual Suspects or House of Games, but then what is?
This good-natured noir is terrifically amusing and likable for the first hour.
Flipping back and forth between jokey slapstick and flat-out brutality, 'Slevin' is determined to keep its audience on edge and, for the most part, it succeeds.
This might be the worst titled movie ever, but rest assured - it's a very entertaining motion picture.
Slevin feels like a lackluster writing sample that somehow bumbled its way into a feature film production.
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