Witty

Rating: 8/10 (14 April 2006)

I loved the look of this film. The entire film was given a 70's look even in present day scenes. Josh Hartnett plays the laid back, sarcastic, go with the flow Slevin very well. As always Bruce Willis plays the hard ass great. The rest of the cast including Lucy Liu and academy award winning actors Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley also gives great performances. This film is sleek and witty, and a welcoming/refreshing change from the crap that's been churned out of Hollywood the past few months. I'm not saying there haven't been any other good movies; just that they are few and far between. The only real gripe I have with the movie is that the movie is a mystery movie, but in the end the audience is given every single piece of information so that no thinking was actually necessary. Audience members could have been catatonic throughout the first half of the movie and still came out with the same knowledge as those who avidly paid attention the entire time. Even though the film had a twist (which was predictable) I felt the makers of this film should have given a little credit to the audience and left a little to the imagination. That's my long but not so significant gripe about this movie. Other than that it's a great movie and its better to watch than Scary Movie 4.