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List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.96 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 07 April, 2006 DVD Release : 12 September, 2006 |
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Lucky Number Slevin (Full Screen Edition) description How boring it is to label a movie Tarantino-esque anymore. The thing is, when it comes to an offering like Lucky Number Slevin, the shoe fits, and the result is anything but boring. Gruesome killings, arid wit, self-reflexive pop culture references, an A-list cast, and style-heavy production values abound, which gives the proceedings an epoxy bond that seals the Q.T. homage factor. Josh Hartnett--who spends a lot of buffed-up time with his shirt off--is Slevin Kelevra, a hapless fellow visiting his New York friend Nick. But Nick has disappeared, which sets off a mistaken-identity thrill ride when two goons grab Slevin (he's in Nick's apartment so he must be Nick) and take him to their crime lord boss, the Boss (Morgan Freeman). The Boss doesn't care about Slevin's wrong-man protests; he just wants the $96,000 Nick owes him. In one of many offers he can't refuse, Slevin has to agree to murder the son of the Boss's felonious arch rival, the Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) or take the bullet himself. But Slevin turns out to be no ordinary patsy. Thrown into the ingeniously designed production, clever plot twists, and academic nods to Bond, Hitchcock, and obscure old cartoons are Lucy Liu as a sexy coroner, Stanley Tucci as an obsessed cop, and Bruce Willis as a wily hit man with his finger in many pots. With so much visual and narrative trickery, there's almost too much to absorb in one viewing of this convoluted jigsaw puzzle of revenge and entertaining mayhem. Lucky Number Slevin isn't quite up to par with similarly brainy thrillers like Memento and The Usual Suspects, but the prospect of seeing it again in order to get your bearings is just as appealing.--Ted Fry |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | GOOD BUT, UNEVEN! COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT! |
| This is one of those movies that is really frustrating to watch. You have some great actors like Freeman,Kingsley and Willis who are interesting to watch and then you have some not so great actors like Lui and Hartnett who are not very interesting to watch. The story is good but, the love affair between Hartnett and Lui takes up way too much screen time in this otherwise good action film. I understand the purpose of the relationship between them but, it seemed to switch the tone of the movie from violent gangster film to a romantic comedy at times. Hartnett getting his nose broken twice was just too much for me and those kind of "yuk yuk" jokes should have been left out of this grisly tale of revenge. As it is, it's a good film but, it could have been great! | |
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