This has to be one of the greatest movies i have seen for a long time. the cast is great, the story is original and definitely worth getting. 4/5 ****

nothing new, seen it before. and in spite of the 'great' cast this is a very moderate movie. if you don't mind me saying so.
i constantly had the idea they just tried too hard to make a good story and make it look good, funny and intelligent. but it wasn't. not withstanding that it had bruce willis and morgan freeman....

The story line keeps you gripped right from start to finish, and an added bounes its got Bruce Willis

must buy for £4 in the 3 for 12 quid

Truly one of the best films i have ever seen
brilliant plot with a magnificent twist a serious must buy
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Impressively cast, well acted, funny and cleverly written dark comedy that is definitely worth a look. Keeping company with legends such as Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley and Bruce Willis (who has been taking more and more great roles recently), Josh Hartnett takes the lead in the title role and plays it well. Freeman and Kingsley are as ever faultless and brilliant. Willis is fantastic in this kind of role. The dark, understated, non-action-blockbuster, big cast thrillers suit him well. Keep it up Bruce. To top off this top-notcher, Lucy Lui is looking gorgeous in her role as the love interest. I look forward to watching more films by Paul McGuigan, a director I'd previously been unaware of.

This has a great plot but quite easy to figure out if you have seen other films with a twist.

This film was a surprising joy to watch. I normally wouldn't consider Josh Hartnett a favourite actor of mine, but in this role he truley excells. He finds himself backed up by an all star cast including Bruce Willis, Sir Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman and Lucy Lui.
Everyone in this film seems perfectly cast. On the surface- Morgan Freeman and Sir Ben Kingsley don't seem suited to playing gang bosses. However, each of their roles appears to have been written with the actor in mind, and each character is highly believable.
In a nutshell, it's a revenge movie. Outside of the nutshell, it's a love story, comedy, action, thriller and drama all rolled into one. This film benefits from some fantastically written dialogue and a well thought-out story. The direction is brilliant throughout, as we have come to expect with McGuigan's movies.
I reccommend this film to anyone who likes a clever film. Or an action film. Or a comedy. Or..........

Lucky Number Slevin is not as clever as it would like to think it is. The plot is interesting enough but it feels very mid 90s, like the post-Tarantino fare that went straight to video when trying to cash in on the success of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. The dialogue is sharp in places; the Lucy Liu/Josh Hartnett first meeting is excellent, but eventually it drowns in the writer's burdgeoning smugness as the plot becomes even more predictably convoluted.
What saves Slevin from the bargain bin is it's A-list cast and superb director; the forgotten man of British cinema, Paul McGuigan. McGuigan's compulsive debut, Gangster No1 is one of the best first features by any director and he uses some of its visual artistry to make Sleven a joy to look at. His use of disolves and split-screen are masterful and one cant help feeling they are wasted in this film. McGuigan even has Hartnett copy some of Paul Bettany's mannerisms from Gangster No1, making you wish you were watching that movie. He also employs a wonderful sense of nostalgia with his use of gaudy interiors reminiscent of 60s caper films such as Gambit or Charade.
At least McGuigan is injecting a sense of style into the Hollywood genre films he is directing-let's hope he has an opportunity to terrify an American audience with a more weighty work just as he did with his amazing debut.

coolest movie in a long time ,great cast,sharpe lines,witty,well written ,stylist as hell,just a gem ..all i can say is watch this then watch it again as once is not enough

Aw.
So good.
I thought this was a great film, got a tiny bit boring in places but on the other hand the acting fitted the film perfectly, the music fitted perfectly, everything fitted together so well, because sometimes you get a great film but not the correct TYPE of acting, or the correct TYPE of music.
But this film got it perfect.
I think there are two parts the lost the one star for me was the parts where you just drift off a bit.
People who have seen this will know what i mean.
It's just the long parts where they are trying to work out what is going on, but they make so difficult for them selfs it make you want to scream, even though you have know idea what's happening either, it just annoys you for some reason.
But the other reason is that you have no idea what the **** is happening, they sort of give you a little piece of information from different people in seven bloody different scenes.
You are just adding up one piece of information they have given you and then they start another bit of information when your half way through, so you have to stop the sum your in the middle of to listen to what ever the hell their saying, but then when they have finished that piece of information, you have forgotten what the sum you were working out was, so then you try to remember it to add on to the bit you have just learned you forget the bit they just said aswell, by this point the bloody film is half way through the credits.
And that is what lost the star for, it's lucky it didn't lose two, but I have to give praise to everything else the y have accomplished in this movie.