OK of its kind

Rating: 6/10 (16 April 2006)

SLEVIN is a gimmicky crime drama about gambling and payback that depends much too heavily on a twist ending. It also has all the earmarks of an independent production, yet it stars some pretty damned big names in relatively small roles, including Bruce Willis as a hit man and Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman as rival crime bosses. Your tolerance for the film may depend on your tolerance for Josh Hartnett in the lead role as a loser mistaken for someone else. He wasn't bad, although it is hard to watch the kid without thinking of lookalike Ashton Kutcher and PUNK'D. If you can hang in to the end, you may be pleasantly surprised by the turn of events. Willis doesn't look particularly well, by the way. Don't know if this was intentional.