Rating:8/10
Here's a novel idea.  Morgan Freeman doesn't play God in this movie.  When I first picked up this movie, I was expecting a light hearted gangster fare, kind of like Snatch,  The movie started off a little confusing and I thought at first it was put into the movie to pad the time.  But it was an interesting story.  And it really grabbed my attention.  And then we are introduced to the bad luck character known as Slevin.  Bad luck after bad luck befell on our lead and you do kind of feel for him.  So this movie did start off as a light hearted gangster kind of movie as we see Slevin dealing with The Boss and The Rabbi as he is told what to do or else.  But then the last half hour of the movie starts taking its twists and the becomes quite a bit darker.  Then you realized that you are trapped into this movie.  You also are told the relevance of the story in the begining, which really blew me away.  I thought that the acting was excellent as you have some really heavy hitters in this movie.  All the main actors that were in this movie have a charm that they bring to almost any movie to make it good and they all work quite well together.  The only weak link that I seen was Lucy Liu and at first she came across as funny, then annoying, forced and then it seemed right.  But if you want to watch an amazing piece of acting, the scene in which Ben Kinglsey and Morgan Freeman are tied to chairs together in a room and they are talking about the falling out they have had.  When Josh Hartnett comes into the room, you can tell he elevated his game and made this scene one of the most memorable I've seen in quite some time.  Especially when Hartnett was speaking his dialogue and the facial reactions that Kinglsey and Freeman did, was nothing short of awesome.  A movie that is really worth the time to watch.  Intelligent and clever if you don't become to confused by the opening scenes.