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Rating: 8/10 (12 September 2006)

Lucky#Slevin is about a bad men who do bad things. It's good to see mobsters get it, they should all be put out of our misery. The movie smacks of The Jackal with Willis playing a soulless hit man. Freeman and Kingsley playing mob kingpins. Hartnet and Liu playing innocent bystanders. The film starts out in 1979 with a hit on an inconsequential gambler and his family. Later you find out what that's all about, but its not too hard to guess. Excellent cast and acting. A couple of rough editing sequences and cheesy dialog make this almost a dark comedy. The game is the Kansas City Shuffle and the twists are OK although not too surprising.