The good things about this movie:
The dialogue with its would-be David Mamet coolness that only sometimes succeeds, Lucy Liu with her freckles, Josh Hartnett who has a sense of humor mature enough to make you like him in this role, Ben Kingsley's performance, Ben Kingsley's role, Morgan Freeman's performance in a sucky part, the title-credits, the name "Slevin Kellavra".
The bad things about this movie:
The dialogue with its would-be David Mamet coolness that so often falls short, Lucy Liu with her minor-league talent, Josh Hartnett with his smugness, the fact that everybody in this movie is an asshole. Yes, even Lindsay, who is too dumb to live.
The Plot:
Slevin (Josh Hartnett) gets "mistaken" for a guy who owes a lot of money to rival crime lords "the Rabbi" (Ben Kingsley)and "the Boss" (Morgan Freeman). In order to pay The Boss his $96,000, he is asked to take out The Rabbi's son in retaliation for The Boss's son having been assassinated by the aforementioned Rabbi earlier. It's both more and less complicated than it sounds. Nothing in this movie approaches, or is meant to approach, real life, but it manages to get away with it on actor charisma and tight editing. You won't be bored, and you probably won't want your money back.
"I liked the fact that the good guys are bad-asses, and that the bad guys really do get what they deserve (everything they love taken from them, then death)." That's not really a spoiler...
Rated R for some nudity, some explicit sex, a few curse-words, a little blood and brain-matter.
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