A clever, cool film with some really funny moments.

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2010)

I very much enjoyed this fun film. The characters are good and the actors playing them did well.
I'm a big fan of Morgan Freeman and I think he is great as the boss, but I was even more impressed with Ben Kingsley's performance as the Rabbi. Josh Harnett's character "Slevin" really amused me with his ability to say the wrong thing and rub people up the wrong way. His sarcastic manner really helped me to build up a fondness for a character that you don't get much back story with until later on in the film. Bruce Willis also does a good job and the character really suits him.
Slanley Tucci plays the role of the cop Brikowski well, and I think he is always good in roles where you're not supposed to like him.
I really enjoyed "Sloe and Elvis", a very funny double act. It bugged me for a while because I knew I had seen the actor who played Sloe somewhere but couldn't work it out. He was Bubba in Forrest Gump (thanks IMDb) and plays someone just as clever in this film.
I know some people that have said this film is predictable. I did not find this and wish I was clever enough to have found it so. I don't think the writer or director were trying to push any boundaries or trying to make an ultra cool Tarantino type film. I think they were just making a good watchable movie, and that's what it is. There are lots of people that will love this film and I can understand why it has such a high rating (7.8 while I'm writing this) and why lots of people would have given it 10/10.
This is a funny, easy to enjoy film. Just let it happen and don't try to work it out in the first five minutes. Not an amazing or incredible film, but well worth watching.