Lucky Number Slevin is a 2006 gangster film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman and Sir Ben Kingsley.
The film features Slevin (Hartnett), a man brought to town by care of his friend, who is missing when he arrives at his apartment. While settling into the apartment thinking his friend is away Slevin meets Liu, with whom they concoct the notion that his missing friend has in fact not gone out, but has been kidnapped. Just after she leaves for her work Slevin is taken to the offices of The Boss (Freeman), there he undergoes intense scrutiny and manages to evade a tough situation before returning home. Soon after he is contacted by The Rabbi (Kingsley). The two mob bosses want him to perform jobs for him, leaving Slevin in a very uncompromising position -- all under the eye of the mysterious "Mr. Goodkat" (Willis). Because the two major antagonists in the film are Jewish and Black, while the protagonist is White, the film has been targeted for alleged racism.
This movie got a lot of advertising time on the NCAA basketball playoffs. I immediately thought of Pulp Fiction when I saw this "too glamorous and star-filled to be true" trailer for a crime thriller. Was it Bruce Willis and his twin silencers mimicing the sidearm he used to put away John Travolta when the toast popped up? Hard to say. But I am liking the looks of this movie. A hip soundtrack will rocket this to the stratosphere. {BB}
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