Starring Josh Hartnett (Slevin), Morgan Freeman (The Boss), Bruce Willis (Mr. Goodkat) and Ben Kingsley (The Rabbi)
I've just recently watched this movie. Though I heard rave reviews about it, and I must say that I am sad that I waited so long to see this film. I thoughly enjoyed the ride this movie takes you on. It all starts with a Kansas city shuffle.
From the seemingly dull opening shot of a sterile and bright bus terminal. The story that Mr. Goodkat (Willis) weaves for the young man chills you down to your bones and makes you glad that you never got mixed up in any sort of organized crime.
Though this is a typical revenge movie, it manages not to be so typical.
Here you have a hitman, Willis, finding a conciseness and saving his mark, which happens to be a little boy. Goodkat was actually called in to kill the boy as no one else would take the job. And then turning around and helping that boy seek revenge on the very men that slaughtered his whole family 20 years earlier. And mixed in between the lines you have the plot Hartnett and Willis concoct to get in with the mobsters.
Lucy Liu as always puts in a stellar performance as the wanna be detective, coroner who lives across the hall. Though she made her mark playing a bitch worthy of the Devil Wear Prada, she made a convincing sweet heart in this movie. And I for one want to see her branch out more in her roles. Though I still love to see the Lucy bitch every now and then.
Freeman and Kingsley are the high rise mod bosses so afraid of each other that they have locked themselves away in their ivory towers. However stunted in their locations in this movie they still manage to put in some good work in this film. Freeman is almost a likable mobster as he cracks jokes at Hartnett's expense.
4 out of 5 stars.
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