Slevin's got my number

I hadn’t even heard of Lucky Number Slevin till this morning when I saw Mark Jenkins’ City Paper review. Checking out the trailer, I have to say I’m intrigued. Certainly it could sink into the doldrums of cutesy crime comedy, a la the Nine Yards films, but it also might be a rough and tumble, Americanized version of Guy Ritchie’s dizzy British crime flicks—overplotted and overedited, but wildly entertaining. And what a great cast too—Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Stanley Tucci, Lucy Liu, and, of course, Bruce Willis, an actor who deserves far more credit than he gets. Sure, it’s got Josh Hartnett in the lead, but he’s not all bad: his bit part in Sin City was great, he did a fine job of staying out of Ridley Scott’s way in Black Hawk Down, and his turn in Virgin Suicides showed some real promise. Seeing as I’m a sucker for crime movies in general and snarky, twisty, ironic crime movies even more, I’m pretty sure this will end up being a Lucky weekend for me.