10 Movie Character Reveals Which Stopped You Dead

10. Slevin Was Really Henry - Lucky Number Slevin

As far as pitching a movie goes, you wouldn't have to go much further than having Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley as rival crime bosses to grab the interest of most people. Add in Bruce Willis as something of a third-party interest of both, plus Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci, Josh Hartnett, and a huge twist, and you've got yourself a picture.

The story starts with something of a history lesson, in which a character by the name of Max bet on a fixed horse race that ultimately went wrong. The new mafia outfit in town, to make an impression, ordered Max, his wife, and his son Henry to be killed. 

When Hartnett's Slevin Kelevra gets dragged into the middle of his roommate's gambling problems, it seems at first that he's an innocent bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time, until the game-changing reveal that he was really Henry, Max's son, who hitman Bruce Willis decided to keep alive after a bout of compassion.

The mobsters that killed Max were The Boss (Freeman) and The Rabbi (Kingsley), which consequently saw Henry engineer all of the events in the story to be able to kill them both. It's a genius example of the Kansas City Shuffle that Bruce Willis explains in the opening scenes, it's all about misdirection and there's not an audience member watching that wouldn't have fallen for it.