Lucky Number Slevin

Paul McGuigan's "Lucky Number Slevin" is a brilliant film with an all-star cast, but it used its actors in ways that many people may not be used to seeing them. Here's the low-down on each actor and their roles:

After seeing Morgan Freeman play the wise, old, black man in movie after movie, it's refreshing to see him as a ruthless crime boss. Freeman's character is confident and sure of himself the way you would expect from a Freeman character, but in this film, he is more exciting.

Lucy Liu's roles in "Kill Bill," "Charlie's Angels," and "Tomorrow Never Dies" showed her as a female ass-kicker, but didn't get to show that she can play a sensitive, cute, sweet, vulnerable woman. "Lucky Number Slevin" showed off all that and utilized her toughness.

Bruce Willis' characters are often emotional and reckless. Here? He's professional, cold, and calculating. He's like the anti-John McClane.

Josh Hartnett, who plays Slevin, the main character, puts on his greatest performance ever. Between that, the brilliant screenplay, and the fantastic directing, I just have one complaint about the film: if one of the actors had to spend half the movie wearing nothing but a towel, shouldn't it have been Lucy Liu?