Apr 30 2006
The Lucky Slevin
The film is ok 
A well produced and acted, fast paced, thriller with one professionally executed theme. The cast quality held the film together. It’s a good film for people who want to walk in and out without having felt challenged or provoked to think. Just take a ride.
The theme I noticed:
- Revenge. several different revenge plots. I guessed many plot ‘twists’ before they were explicitly revealed. This was due to a very streamlined script but it dampened the film’s impact as a thriller because it felt predictable despite some very novel scenes. The story structure is good quality but not innovative.
Other notable points
- The opening credits were impressive because of the graphic effects and their relevance to the plot. You are taken straight into the movie while the credits are delivered.
- Morgan Freeman’s velvet voice. Isn’t it always?
- Ben Kingsly as an American Rabbi. Riveting performance. My main motivation for seeing the film was experiencing Ben Kingsly act with Morgan Freeman. There is one scene that contains both actors.
- Lucy Liu is not playing a vamp. A pleasant suprise. Very adorable character, intellegent and cute without being a clutz. The sugar collection scenes that establish her character provided a film highlight. A credit to the scene scripting, acting and direction.
- Bruce Willis is not stretched by his role. He had much more room to demonstrate his talent in 12 Monkeys, Sixth sense, Die Hard or even Pulp Fiction.
- Lack of character development. None that I noticed. The boy and the girl fell in love. Some people discovered stuff they didn’t already know. Some people died. That’s not really character development.
The Lucky Slevin
You know, I actually enjoyed Lucky Number Slevin WAAAYYY more than V for Vendetta. Albeit, very different films, but LNS was sleeker, more stylish, AND had a sense of humor, to boot. THAT is extremely important to me, being able to laugh out loud in the theater. Sumthin’ about Josh Hartnett in a towel for the first third of the movie got me to chuckle quite a little bit.