Horrendous slice of pulp fiction neo-noir

Rating: 1/10 (10 April 2006)

LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN (2006) * Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci. Horrendous slice of pulp fiction neo-noir with the miscast Hartnett as a hapless schmuck in a mistaken identity caper involving long feuding crime bosses (Freeman and Kingsley should be ashamed for this malarkey), a taciturn assassin (Willis, ditto) and a comely coroner (Liu who is too kinetic for this stillborn pap) mixed in for (bad) measure with its too-in-love-with-itself-"ain't-I'clever (YOU'RE NOT!!)" screenplay by Jason Smilovic and overwhelmingly directed by Paul McGuigan as if attempting a hybrid of Tarantino and Ritchie. I really hated this film and if you can't figure out the convoluted 'gotchas' then you deserve this curdled tripe.