Lucky Number Slevin **1/2 (out of four): Director Paul McGuigan's stylish gangster trifle ends up being too much fiction and not enough pulp.
Like a tremendous earthquake, “Pulp Fiction’s” aftershocks continue to be felt along the fault line of the Hollywood gangster genre. And as is typical with duplication, the more you make copies of copies, the farther you get from the original. The latest entry in this crowded category, “Lucky Number Slevin”, is populated with that same kind of quirky, hipster gangster that seems to pop up ever since Mr. Tarantino re-introduced John Travolta to the world. You know: the kind that shoot off their mouths as must as their guns.
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