Yes, Sir Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman as mob bosses - Who would've thunk?
Gangsters are supposed to be merciless, smart and violent - not the saint-like figure of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or the straight-faced US army general. Put the slick-tongued Mr. Slevin in front of Tony Soprano or Don Corleone, he wouldn't have survived for more than 5 minutes. Or maybe gangsters are nice guys who loves to talk a lot and let people carry big guns into their offices, who knows.
But don't get me wrong, I LOVE this movie even though the gangsters are little bit too nice: acting is first rated - Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Josh Hartnett and even Lucy, everybody delivered tour de force performance. (Bruce Willis? Don't go there... :-) Josh and Lucy had great chemistry hitting off the scene when they first met in the apartment, and Lucy's monologue rocks! "You mean this isn't the first time a crime lord has asked you to kill the gay son of a rival gangster to pay off a debt that belongs to a friend whose place you're staying in as a result of losing your job, your apartment and finding your girlfriend in bed with another guy." - you just gotta love those good screenwrites.
OK, so you want to talk about Bruce Willis? My favorite scene of him in the whole god damn movie is when he said this at the end: "I am a world-class assassin, fuckhead." Now that sums up Bruce's entire career - man in trench coat, both hands straight with big guns and an intense look on the face, frozen forever, appropriate in every action movie he's done. In the bonus material he asked Morgan Freeman: "Career advice, do you think I chose the right career?" Freeman laughed, didn't say a thing. Heh.
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