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Directed By
Paul McGuigan
Written By:
Jason Smilovic
Cast:
Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci, Bruce Willis, Peter Outerbridge, Mykelti Williamson, Scott Gibson, Daniel Kash, Danny Aiello, Robert Forster, Sam Jaeger, Kevin Chamberlin, Dorian Missick, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Michael Rubenfeld
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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
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Movie Review by Zara 
September 27th, 2009
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If I were to have given up on this movie a third of the way in, after feeling like I was being bashed over the head by its "cleverer than thou" attitude, I wouldn't have enjoyed the final outcome. In the end, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVEN is a good movie, but it starts off like a badly told tale and most of the people in it wear thin on you.
We get it - Bruce Willis is a badass for hire. We get it - Stanley Tucci is a bald a**hole. We get it - Lucy Liu is the go-to girl when you want someone perky without hiring a blonde. We get it - Morgan Freeman is the pinnacle of black man cool. We get it - Sir Ben Kingsley can play ANYTHING with a great accent really well.
But what most people overlook... what most people don't really see and don't acknowledge and certainly don't admit to their friends when other people could be listening, is that Josh Hartnett is a damn good actor. His intensity is in his quiet demeanor. His crooked smile. His messy damn eyebrows. In the end, if you were to ask your friends who claim to have liked this movie who was their favorite part, they would have named anyone BUT Hartnett. And there's the problem with this being a completely awesome flick. They don't allow the linchpin of film to shine through above and beyond all of the other trumped up character actors with longer histories and powdered professional reputation bottoms.
This movie ends up being good in the end because of the guy that no one suspects. Not the characters in the film and not the people watching it either.
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 | Lisa
Oct 2, 2009 12:53 PM
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| This is a movie I've been meaning to go back to, as I could not get past the hard outter shell to reach the sweet gooey centre. |
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