Eye Candy #166 - "Lucky Number Slevin"

Lucky Number Slevin: A movie that deserves a larger audience but was completely mismarketed by its studio. They wanted you to think it was "Snatch". It's not. It's actually a better script than "Snatch", folks. And it goes to show if you pair Josh Hartnett with a solid script, he *can* carry a movie. A smart, smart comedy-thriller (the first 2/3rds of the film has some of the sharpest dialogue in a film in the last 5 years; the last 3rd swerves into something WAAAAAY different) with some great performances from Hartnett, Liu, Freeman, and Kingsley (Bruce Willis is there, but he doesn't bring anything to the table in terms of new and different). Slevin Kelevra, while staying in a friend's apartment, becomes a victim of mistaken identity and runs afoul of not one, but TWO crime bosses out to get one another. Soon he's playing both sides against the middle for reasons that aren't explained until the very end of the film, when we learn the entire film was something else entirely. Really, a well done film, a very nice surprise (I watched it on a whim, then went out and bought it), and worth repeat viewings. Woodchuck sez, "Me likey."