From the moment Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) explains the trickery of the Kansas City Shuffle, Lucky Number Slevin announces its intentions to mercilessly jerk us around. The film is the latest entry in the monologue-laden subgenre of Pulp Fiction clones. Josh Hartnett squints his way through the role of Slevin, a man caught in a war between two colorful gangsters, The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley). Willis plays an assassin manipulating everyone against each other, a sort of mind-fuck mediator. It's slick, quick, and bloody, but the chicanery of the too-clever-for-its-own-good plot would be more at home in one of the character's monologues than as the frame for an entire film.
2.5 out of 5
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