Lucky Number Slevin

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

  • 51% of critics liked it
    (154 reviews)

  • 86% of users liked it
    (308,722 ratings)

An innocent man visiting a friend in New York City becomes embroiled in a dangerous series of events after being mistaken for the very man he has come to the city to see in director Paul McGuigan's labyrinthine murder mystery. Upon arriving at the empty apartment of his old friend Nick, the… More

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R, 1 hr. 50 min.
Directed By
Paul McGuigan
Written By
Jason Smilovic
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Apr 7, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Sep 12, 2006
Weinstein Company

Critic Reviews

  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

    With its diabolical ending, this is the movie equivalent of a crossword puzzle: fun, clever, and disposable.

  • David Edelstein, New York Magazine

    It shrinks your perception of what movies can do.

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    Everything in it -- every confusion, every line of unspeakable dialogue, every red herring, every camera setup -- has been borrowed from some movie you've seen before.

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    It finally all makes sense after a fashion, and I think and hope that you will be entertained by all the narrative legerdemain.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    I think it was entertaining as heck.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jeff "


    Lucky Number Slevin was a pretty action film that I thought didn't deserve the flack it received. I thought that the plot was great and that the cast delivered some good performances. Of course there were things that could have been done better, but for what it is; Lucky Number… More

  • Albert K


    At first, the movie's enjoyable but in the last hour, there are so many plot twists and turns that it completely kills the movie. You must understand, I love plot twists, but if there are 70 of them in the end, it kills it. Performances were good though.

  • Adam K


    Lucky number Slevin is a film which sometimes is too much of an effort. Combining a cast of Morgan Freeman and Sir Ben Kingsley it will look from a distance like a good film. But wait. It's a gangster movie. Must be even better. It has a newcomer. Great! But it isn't. A very… More

  • Shawn E


    A clever crime film with a fantastic set of twists and turns. The dialog and acting are quite good and the over the top style and humor are great additions.

  • Idrees K


    I don't think it's really as bad as the reviews make it out to be...I think it manages to be a pretty decent film, even though it may not be everyones cup of tea

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