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Lucky Me Favorite Movie Quote: "I'm a world-class assassin, f*ckhead." Twists are kookie things. Mishandled and/or overused, such as in a craptastic film like Reindeer Games, and they simply add pretentiousness to an already listless story. If the film is otherwise boring save the twist, such as most of Shyamalan's crap, you get a pony worthy of a single trick. If the twist is simply a tool with which to change the audience's perception of an already interesting story sans the twist, you get the Usual Suspects or Lucky Number Slevin. As the opening credits roll for Lucky Number Slevin, we come in and out of a series of what we assume will be related, essential events. In the opening sequence, a man identifying himself as Smith (Bruce Willis) sits down with a young man and has a conversation in which he tells the young man - or more specifically the audience - what's in store; Smith is even kind enough to label the inciting incident and explain that the characters are only related by the slightest of events, so slight that even they do not remember. Just like everything in the film, the meeting between Smith and the young unidentified man is not chance but instead has a purpose. Slevin (Josh Hartnett) comes into town to see long-time friend Nick Fisher after Slevin loses his job, finds his apartment building condemned, and his girlfriend's insides being inspected by another man's penis. Upon arriving in town, Slevin is promptly mugged - losing his wallet and ID - and finds his friend Fisher missing, an event that seems to be more significant when Slevin meets nosy, cute-as-a-bug neighbor Lindsey (Lucy Lui). In no time at all, and for reasons that he can't comprehend aside from being in his friend Nick's apartment on the wrong day, Slevin finds himself the keystone figure in a gang war between The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and quickly becomes one of the police department's most wanted as he is harrassed by Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci). Even those who realize that he's not Nick Fisher don't seem to be interested in letting him off the hook. While I won't give away its secrets, I will say that, unlike many flicks with a twist, Lucky Number Slevin gives you the clues to figure most of the puzzle out, which I found refreshing. Equally impressive is that Lucky Number Slevin is entertaining if you don't know what's going on and, like the Usual Suspects, even more entertaining upon repeated viewing once you do. Lucky me. email this review to a friend
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