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the 24th August.
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.
Its always exciting when unknown and enveloping perils surround a
films 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. Theres a distinct difference in going
along for a ride and being taken for one........
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