people I don't care about doing things I don't care about for reasons I don't want to know about

Rating: 6/10 (27 December 2013)

No spoilers for this review. Instead of trying to unravel this convoluted plot, I'll say that it's trying very hard to be a cool noir mystery. Slevin (Josh Hartnett) is mistaken by a crime Boss (Morgan Freeman) for Nick who owes him $96k.
Josh Hartnett doesn't strike me as a lead for this movie. He's too plain white bread in a sea of crazy wacky characters. He needs more presence of his own. This is a fast talking twisty complicated convoluted story. Everybody is talking a lot for the sake of talking a lot. The writer is trying to be too clever. By the end, it ends up being a whole lot of people I don't care about doing things I don't care about for reasons I don't want to know about. The twists, the reveals, none of it matters after awhile.