Payback meets pulp fiction

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2006)

It may start out pretty slow, but if you keep looking for 15 to 20 minutes it picks up the pace. This gangster movie was very well directed and full with details. The best way to describe it is to see it as a mixture of Payback (1999) and Pulp Fiction (1994). The faint of heart shouldn't watch this movie as the violence is quite direct. Oh, but the story is great! Slevin ( Josh Hartnett - The Faculty, Black Hawk Down) is not so lucky. He gets mistaken for his good buddy Nick Fisher and now gets in trouble with the two biggest kingpins in town aka The Boss (Morgan Freeman - Se7en, Amistad) and The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley - Sneakers, Schindler's List). Above that, there is a mysterious Mr. Smith aka Goodkat (Bruce Willis - Die Hard, Pulp Fiction) who seems to be a professional killer.