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Review:
Gone are the days when crime thrillers were dark, grim and menacing. By relishing in its high-concept visual style and its overconfident and convoluted narrative, a hyperactive candy-striped neo-noir crime film is born. “Lucky Number Slevin” utilises strong comic book imagery to serve up a colourful and fantastical story centred on a seasoned hitman (Bruce Willis), a hapless young schmuck, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) and two of the biggest crime bosses (Morgan Freeman as The Boss, Sir Ben Kingsley as The Rabbi) in the city.
Slick and fast paced, its snappy dialogue looms heavy over each scene. Reverberations of the non-stop chatter amongst its players echo back later on in the twisting plot. The bastardized comic trope employed seems like a scrawny throwback to the cool and glib heydays of film noir, but is prone to resorting to cheap risible slapstick. It uses radical camera angles, with flashy costumes and the f/x aided edits that mixes up inventive shots and extreme close-ups. It races recklessly headlong into unbridled visceral imagery.
ItÂ’s always exciting when unknown and enveloping perils surround a filmÂ’s protagonists while both the characters and audience are lost in the scores of seemingly unrelated subplots and incidents, which all threaten to culminate in an unexpectedly explosive finish. But unfortunately, we already expect that ending from the get-go with this movie, as the constant windups become a telling farce early on when they come in barrages. ThereÂ’s a distinct difference in going along for a ride and being taken for one........
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