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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

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Release Date: Apr 07, 2006; Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Sep 12, 2006; Genre: Thriller; With: Josh Hartnett; Distributor: The Weinstein Company

B+

By Timothy Gunatilaka

Lucky Number Slevin is certainly Tarantinoesque — bullets and blood galore, too many plot twists — but ultimately emerges as a cool crime thriller. Director Paul McGuigan mixes oversaturated hues and jittery jump cuts with frisky screwball comedy. Hartnett is the object of a ''bona fide case of mistaken identity'' between warring gangsters (Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley). EXTRAS Witty deleted scenes, plus a commentary track where McGuigan mocks Slevin's ungainly title. ''It's like having an ugly child,'' he says. ''You learn to love it.''

Posted Sep 08, 2006

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