Horrible. Absolutely Insulting.

Rating: 1/10 (9 October 2006)

This film is crammed with too much hipster language. Perhaps it's being used as a device to camouflage a very poor film. It's trying so hard to be witty and funny, but fails miserably. The sex and violence were very graphic and not in an artistic way. It certainly didn't help the story and just seemed to be stuffed in everywhere to fill plot holes.
Lucy Lu needs an acting lesson and the script was written by someone who must have just read the book "Writing Monologues for Dummies." How someone could enjoy this film is beyond me. If there was a sequel to Pulp Fiction that was made by a third-rate writer and director with ADHD, Slevin is what would have been produced.
I'm not going into the boring and predictable plot here. I'm just going to highlight two points.
1) Any film where the characters start quoting/summarizing plots from classic films is trying to ride on the coat tales of greatness. In this mediocre film, Slevin (the main character) compares his life to Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's North by Northwest in a long, stupid monologue.
2) Have you ever seen The Simpson's episode where Lisa discovers she's a vegetarian and insists on a veggie meal in the cafeteria? To squash her opinion, the school shows a Troy McClure video that promotes eating meat and claims that anyone who is a vegetarian is a moron. Lisa exclaims at the end of the film "Are you really going to swallow this tripe?" to the other students. The teacher responds by asking the student to help themselves to some tripe that was donated by the meat council. This class digs in.
Considering the high ratings on IMDb, I suppose a lot of people swallow this tripe. It's sad. Very very sad....