Slix Stlars

Rating: 6/10 (10 September 2006)

Enteraining caper tries to pull a Usual Suspects, but comes across being a little suspect itself. While the movie flies along with assured direction, highlighted by the great cast and peppered with insightful dialog, Slevin definitely is the forerunner for this year's hip crime flick for the uninitiated. For all of it's witty reinvention , Slevin at times comes across as silly, shallow, and quite naive. Although one should suspend disbelief and just go along for the ride with a movie of this nature, too many "revelatory" moments in the film's final act sort of bog down the flow, trying a little too hard to shove that shock factor down our throats. Cast is fine, although they rarely achieve anything past the fundamentally cartoonish nature of these larger the life characters, an all too often used move in the world of threateningly entertaining capers catering to the young and hip. Make no mistake, Slevin is a good time to be had, especially if one is in the mood for a watered down Tarantino kind of night, but all of the hype surrounding the plot twists, while at it's best wickedly entertaining, does not really get past the self-importance, and slightly forced hip factor this fun movie sets out to capture.