Saw it yesterday. I quite enjoyed it. It is fast paced and clever. Some of the critics have said that it is perhaps too glib and I can’t disagree, but that didn’t ruin it for me.
I did figure out the twist, but that is OK sometimes, it makes me feel smart. 
I recommend it.
The trailer for this movie made me wonder something very important about the plot: is Josh Hartnett nekkid in it? (You see him in the towel a lot in the trailer but does he ever drop it?)
I’ve been wanting to see this since Josh Hartnett was on the Daily Show and compared it to the movies from the Coen Brothers. Since then I’ve heard some other things that make me think I might like that. At first I didn’t want to see it because one of the trailers has an Earl Dittman quote.
There’s an extended sequence in which he walks around using sheer willpower, apparently, to keep a towel around his waist.
I saw it tonight and loved it.
My fiancee didn’t llike it so much. It was a little violent for her.
I had figured out some of the twists, but not all of them
I never saw it coming on the part where the cop was dirty too.
I saw Lucky Number Slevin today. I guess I’m not too bright, because I didn’t catch on to “Slevin Kelevra’s” true identity. I was also surprised about the police detective being corrupt.
There sure were a lot of killings, though.
I liked it a lot. The main “twist” was pretty obvious, but I don’t think that was a flaw. They put the flashback sequence up front, and it was fairly easy to piece together what was up from that – but I think that was intentional.
There were still enough unexpected curves to keep it interesting – but for me the best thing about the movie was the dialogue, which was totally sharp and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. (Lucy Lui was given some real gems – I’d love to see the outtakes from the bit where she summarized Slevin’s experiences up to that point in the film in an ironic fifteen-second rapid-fire run-on sentence. Brilliant!)
Talon Karrde – it was the Cohen Bros. comparison in that Daily Show interview that made me prick up my ears, too. Wasn’t hubris, either. I didn’t have much interest in it at first, simply because the title makes “creative” use of a numeral; the number “seven,” no less, and with Morgan Freeman up front. Marketers, please try to avoid reminding me of the only thing I’ve seen Morgan Freeman in that I regretted spending time and money on! 
I especially liked all the cool wallpaper.
Well, I’m glad that someone who was interested for the same reason as me liked it so much! Seriously though, what on earth drove them to put Earl Dittman quotes in the trailer? To me, that would be like listing the director as Alan Smithee.
I think there needs to be a massive campaign to tell the movie studios that people will refuse to see movies that use Earl Dittman in their promotional material.
Well, I like the fact that they him because I know what movies to stay away from. I’m just surprised that they used him for a movie I’ll probably like!
Most people don’t know about him, and they use him for mainstream movies. Lucky Number Slevin seems more like it’ll be a cult movie, and maybe pretty good on its own merits. The people that would like this movie the most are more likely to know about Earl Dittman, and so part of the potential audience might be scared away.
Oh yeah, for those who don’t know what we’re talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Dittman
Oddly enough though, it seems he may be a legit film critic with bad taste instead of a positive quote dispenser. Look at the yahoo link in the article I linked to.
I liked it a lot. I didn’t get all the clues at first, but made sense in retrospect. I had an idea where it was going before the big date (and not with Lucy Liu – who was great in it, btw). I was expecting something way more confusing given some of the review I read/heard. It’s definitely a must-see and one of the best movies so far this year (V for Vendetta is the other go-must-see). It’s pretty straight-forward, but does have a bad case of “hide the ball” which I forgive because of how well it was shot, great pacing, and great dialogue.
I watched it and I liked it. The plot is not very solid though.
If mr goodcat had access to both bosses from the get go, why didn’t he just kill them and be done with it? He’s a world-class assassin afterall.
That’s obvious, isn’t it?The object wasn’t simply to kill two men, the object was revenge for Max. It was important for Max to have an active hand in it, and Max didn’t have access.