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Paul McGuiganDrehbuch:
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Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Peter Outerbridge, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Chamberlin, Dorian Missick (mehr)Streaming (5)
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Slevin ist neu in New York. Er kommt erst einmal bei seinem Kumpel Nick unter - komisch nur, dass von diesem jede Spur fehlt. Dafür stehen plötzlich zwei Gangster vor der Tür und wollen von Slevin, den sie für Nick halten, jede Menge Kohle. Doch Slevin hat kein Geld und soll deshalb für den "Boss" den Sohn des "Rabbis" ermorden. Dabei kommen ihm der unnachgiebige Cop Brikowski und der berüchtigte Killer Goodkat, die sich an seine Fersen heften, äußerst ungelegen ... (ATV)
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Ein schwarzhumoriger Gangsterfilm, der ein Tarantino- und ein Ritchie-Film sein möchte. Dies ist ihm aber nicht gelungen, weil sein Drehbuchautor unreif ist. Der Regisseur Paul McGuigan hat aber gedacht, dass er es schaffen wird. Das hat mich überrascht. Sein genialer Film Sehnsüchtig hat mir viel besser gefallen.
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The first half, full of wanna-be cool dialogue where the characters are supposed to verbally make fun of each other, is pure misery. Then the action gets going and McGuigan finally puts some edge on the overwrought story. The explanatory flashbacks are fun, but there’s no believability. Hartnett actually acts (!), Willis is stony as usual, and the rest of them sort of shuffle around, content that they have famous names, count their film awards by the metric ton, and try to look terribly above it all. Awkwardness is the impression that best describes it, and I'll probably never give it a second chance. I give it a weaker three stars.
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When the third meaningless murderous scene appeared within the first quarter hour, I started to feel slightly uneasy, and when everything in its ironic spirit led to the same culminating climax, I was by then almost irritated. But then came what I never would have expected: I forgot that Lucky Number Slevin was directed by Paul McGuigan (he definitely wouldn't be pleased to see how many people are accusing him of plagiarizing Quentin Tarantino), who once played with a confused tangle when he presented me with the excellent film Pushing Tin. And he pulled off something similar here as well when he comes up with a complicated, but brilliantly made gradation that is longer than usual and gives very clear and sufficiently effective answers to all questions. At this moment, I think that the ironic detachment in the first part was actually not so unnecessary because it was balanced by a superb atmosphere and soundtrack right on the border between sarcasm and gangster themes. In the end, just under 80%, for the absolutely flawless Bruce Willis and above-average remainder of the cast, along with the excellent camera work and McGuigan, whose next work is worth waiting for.
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Every movie fan since Kill Bill knows that revenge tastes best served cold. Unfortunately, I got my mouth properly scalded by McGuigan. Initially, the story is promisingly paced, narratively enjoyable and witty, with no fucking around with machine guns, and with likeable characters. But about half an hour before the end it changes its face completely, the narrative lightness is gone and the overwrought resolution with tiresome explanatory flashbacks and a numerous body count comes into play, lacking insight and thus putting McGuigan's film among this year's unoriginal, long-worn by me uselessness of the type of Running Scared. I'm just bored of all these ultra-hyper-cool Tarantino clones! Ben Kingsley can only remember his Gandhi and Itzhak Stern with a tear in his eye, his acting is awful (especially noticeable in the dialogue scene between him and Freeman), some of the holes in logic of the plot are truly remarkable, and Josh Hartnett proves that he is just a mediocre actor and simply not up to serious roles.
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This film was a very pleasant surprise. I hardly had any expectations, I don’t like gangster films and and I’m not a fan of Josh Harnett, and even the title wasn’t very appealing. But I ended up having fun from the very first minute. Lucky Number Slevin begins as a very funny crime comedy with a fleeting plot, where everyone behaves very weird, which I thought was fine since comedies can push the boundaries between logic and stupid behaviour as they see fit. I was very surprised when things got serious in the last half hour, the story becomes rational and the behaviour of the protagonists is explained. Unfortunately, the explanation is quite messy at times, I would have been more satisfied if they’d stuck to the comedy all the way till the end. Regardless, the positive feelings prevail.
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