Lucky Number Slevin

I was immediately interested in this film after I saw the first trailer. Luckily this wasn't one of those movies that showed everything cool about it in the 45 seconds they call a 'sneak peak'. This one includes Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley. Sort of a Sin City mix of cast. It was actually interesting to see Lucy Liu in a role where she wasn't a killer or mobster or just intimidating and crazy in general. The movie starts out as one huge case of mistaken identity as Slevin is beaten up and hauled in to talk to the two mobsters in town, The Boss and The Rabbi. Slevin was just visiting a friend and that friend just happened to owe money to several people who wanted it back real bad. Things start to go from bad to worse as we see just how bad things are going for Slevin. His friend is nowhere to be found and now he's in the middle of a war between two men and owing large sums of money to both. Even though this film doesn't follow Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it was the first thing I thought of when we were introduced to The Boss and The Rabbi. Here were two powerful men, interlocked in a blood feud or sorts, who faced each other from their concrete and glass buildings across the street from each other. A shaky truce was at hand and neither wanted to fully cross the line and invoke the consequences. Ultimately, this film is about revenge. True, pure, unadulterated revenge. I think I had things figured out right from the start on who was who and that kind of stuff, but that was ok. The movie still gripped me like a couple of arm rests with cup holders and kept my attention. This was a very good thing since it was about 2am and my 3rd movie of the night at the theater. There's some violence and some language and stuff like that. If you can handle it though, you should definitely give this one a watch. It'll keep you entertained.