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I don't really understand the hype over this movie, it has a good cast and it is a good movie but it's different to be good and to be one of the greatest and this movie has nothing that makes it one of the greatest. The only interesting thing here is that the killer uses the seven deadly sins but even this premise could've been better used, the plot twist is kinda shocking but isn't one of the best ones, ain't one of those jaw dropping ones, at least not for me. The actors did normal nothing especial here too. I love movies of this kind but I got bored watching this and is really nothing special about it, just a massive disappointment

There's a serial killer on the loose in rainy New York City who's modus operandi is to stage seven grisly crime scenes modelled after the Seven Deadly Sins. He is soon aware of the two homicide detectives on the case and becomes enamored with their drive and determination. Hit thriller from director David Fincher and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker is mostly left vague and unexplained. We learn precious little about the psychopath except that he's highly literate and educated, with too much strict religion in his background. This is all hoary police-movie fodder, as is the set-up with the detectives: the wise codger about to retire and his cocky new partner with the short fuse. Fincher mounts the tension well, with staccato glimpses of corpses and gore, but can't escape a fatigued sense of déjà vu (it has "The Silence of the Lambs"-itis). Brad Pitt gets off to an awkward, hesitant start in his role, but does improve. Freeman is sensational; whether throwing his knife at a dartboard or studying up on literature at the library, he is focused and gripping. The lust-and-death-soaked atmosphere is wallowed in--it's the Big Apple as a Gothic Hell--and, certainly, the grimy vibes are palpable and captured successfully, but they're also off-putting. Words written in blood on the walls...it's too much like ugly crime scenes from the evening news, and Fincher and Walker aren't clever enough to distract us nor cunning enough to help us distinguish the difference (the killer does leave clues, but they are quickly solved). The narrative is a mix of derivative movie-thriller ideas and new-fangled ways of making the viewer as squeamish as possible. It's the old pulling-wings-off-flies number, but on a larger, sick-making scale. **1/2 from ****

I don't get why people like it so much. I just thought it was extremely predictable and obvious.

Director David Fincher gets points for atmosphere, even if that atmosphere is mostly unpleasant. This movie is gloomy, even for a serial killer flick.

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are detectives on the trail of a killer who uses the seven deadly sins as the theme for his murders. I might have liked this movie more if it wasn't in love with its own grunge aesthetic -- as it is, it's the kind of film to give fanboys wet dreams, but leaves others wondering what the fuss is about. David Fincher would revisit the serial killer genre again with about 1,000 times more success 13 years later with "Zodiac."

Also starring Gwyneth Paltrow in an early role, and Kevin Spacey, intolerably snarky as usual as the killer.

Grade: B-

Watching SEVEN, you almost expect a beer commercial to interrupt at any moment because it's like watching a harder-edged, slightly grittier, mean streets version of LAW AND ORDER with a more experienced detective (MORGAN FREEMAN) conducting a sort of balancing act with his footloose, craving for action sidekick (BRAD PITT) wanting to get away from his desk work.

It's gritty stuff all the way through, with neon lights flashing amid grimy apartments, chases through crooked alleys and across grimy rooftops and down fire escapes that break the tension of a story whose central theme is the hunt for a serial killer intent on showing off his skill to a detective he professes to admire. As the killer, KEVIN SPACEY adopts a zombie-like pose, a flat monotone and recites his dialog with a straight face--but he's never quite believable enough in the role.

BRAD PITT spends much of the time protesting loudly against the authority figure who tries to calm him down when things get out of hand. But his final emotional scene is a challenging one and he does manage to bring the right anger, confusion and bitter resentment as he confronts the man who has played his final trick on him. He's unrestrained in this final moment and it's the kind of emotion the audience can understand at this point.

MORGAN FREEMAN, as the more restrained, experienced older partner on the brink of retirement, is excellent but his final decision to open a box (without revealing plot details here) is a questionable procedure.

Summing up: Some tense, well-staged moments but the overall effect is less than impressive as a study of a serial killer on the loose.

Overpraised by film noir addicts.

Unlike most of the general public, I am not enamored with this movie. It just doesn't do it for me. The acting is good, the direction, the cinematography, the ambience and atmosphere all just fine, it just isn't very compelling to me for some reason. And I love this genre of movie.

Over the years I've started watching this movie several times. This time I finally finished although it took a few sittings to finish the movie as it put me to sleep more than once.

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I do not include a synopsis of the film/show -- you can get that anywhere and that does not constitute a meaningful review -- but rather my thoughts and feelings on the film that hopefully will be informative to you in deciding whether to invest 90-180 minutes of your life on it.

My scale: 1-5 decreasing degrees of "terrible", with 5 being "mediocre" 6- OK. Generally held my interest OR had reasonable cast and/or cinematography, might watch it again 7 - Good. My default rating for a movie I liked enough to watch again, but didn't rise to the upper echelons 8- Very good. Would watch again and recommend to others 9- Outstanding. Would watch over and over; top 10% of my ratings 10 - A classic. (Less than 2% receive this rating). For Lifetime Movies for Chicks (LMFC), drop the above scale by 3 notches. A 6 is excellent and 7 almost unattainable.

An impressive achievement about itself. I have sympathy for Seven naysayers in that the movie nihilism feels very arrested development and Walker script is a serviceble one blowup for too lofty ambitions (by him and Fincher), but there's no deny conviction and Fincher really put a lot of effort into his urban hell (Taxi Driver made by people who saw it at the right impressionable age) and Freeman sells the grim determinism for all its worth. It is an overlabored movie that very much needs all the heavy hand to make its effect convincing. It also has a lot of good old fashioned craft to sustain itself. It is predicted in the opposition between the cops investigative grunt work (which intentionally goes nowhere) and Spacey's grand design (which as smarter people than me have point out Fincher keeps equating with his own). The Hollywood machinery parts work very well starting with Freeman/Pitt stock pairing, a great collection of faces filling the background and Fincher and his main collaborators (Khondji, Francis-Bruce, Shore, the Max/Wissner/Griffith trio) do put together some impressive big scenes around the investigative work. I remember seeing Seven with my dad during the original release and the ending was the greatest thing ever, but now I think the movie mostly loses me after Spacey big theatrical entrance, part is his very mannered performance meeting Walker script going into overdrive, part is feeling the strings too much, anyone who reads me knows I don't care about plausible logic, but the extense that the movie effect depends on equating Spacey to God/Fincher means the flimsiness of the whole thing does feels wrong, far too reverse engineered to make the payoff really work. Still, there's some one hour of great stuff delivered by some very skilled people doing top tier work and it was very important for me once upon a time, but I can't deny it works better now as occasional 20 minutes chunks on cable.

I saw it just now because some people were accusing The Batman (that I loved) of copying it. However, there veery few similarities between these movies aside from been dark detective movies.

The movie Se7en is great except by the end. The end was a bit sloth since it was hardly the detective work that took them to the end of the mystery. Not withstanding, there is a certain doubt at the end of the movie about what truly happened and what will be the future.

Despite this, until the last 40 minutes, the movie has great dialogue, action, mystery, character development and ambience. It makes you wonder every turn what will happen next.

Another bad side is that there are very few characters, thus very few suspects. You know some people will surely get involved because there is no one else to look for.

Detective, homicide, crime, etc. that was hot topics in that time period. Brad was young and acted bad back then.

Somerset is a detective, who is going to finish his career in a week and he works with a new face, Mills. They investigate a series of mysterious murder and find a clue. A criminal seems to kill people who act based on seven deadly sins, wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony. Somerset and Mills use a record of library and identify a suspect. When they go to the suspect's house, the suspect appears by chance. The suspect runs away and… This is a suspenseful movie and includes a little scary scenes. The director is David Fincher and I think many of his works ends unhappily. Actually I do not prefer this kind of ending so this movie is not so recommendable for people like me. However, as a suspenseful movie, it is so thrilling and enjoyable.

I found this movie rather tedious....it was gritty acting for Pitt, very good performance (as usual) by Freeman, and even Paltrow was good in this one. And the gory details they keep finding out at the murder scenes start to get preposterous. But, alas, it was far too L-O-N-G and could have been shortened somewhat. I think the movie went on far too long - they could have wrapped it up after the first 2 hours, but instead go on and on... And that scene where Pitt chases the suspect seems to never end...rain and all. Rather depressing...and not believable. I find it difficult to give this movie too much of a rating...my '6' is rather generous.

It's a good film I agree but thoroughly disturbing and I have to say, I was disappointed at the end. I had heard there was a twist but this was so predictable and unsatisfying. I could've stopped watching halfway through but stayed to see if the hype was worth it, it wasn't, 6/10 is very generous.

A veteran detective delays his retirement to usher in an ambitious hero.

Brad Pitt's delightful dimples make him a target for methodical serial killer John Doe. Morgan Freeman provides the only sanctuary for Pitt's character Detective David Mills because, we know Mills is "not from here". Here being, an unknown American inner city where police sirens howl and gunshots echo throughout, the night. Freeman's character, Detective Somerset agrees to help Mills because, he makes a connection between the two murder cases they are each assigned. Seven is a compulsive fetish of a film that you cannot turn away from. Are we sinners for enjoying this film? Macho hero Mills refuses to accept the city is forsaken and pays the painful price. Se7en remains a favourite movie from the 1990's for anyone of that generation. It is an ensemble of talented performers, heart pounding narrative action and of course the moody, noir city..

The movie starts with a lame, boring, corny story, badly written, and covers up that fact with incredible direction, cinematography, acting, composing etc. But ultimately, for me, all the expensive and beautiful ornaments and decorations don't make up for the fact that its just a bad, pointless, lazy story.

So, this movie is very nit-pickable. I mean, the ending twist requires a lot of acceptance. The logistics of it don't make a ton of sense. Also there is a giant empty endless desert right next to a gotham style city? But forget all that. Ultimately this movie has one of the most annoying tropes in movies, and executes it in an incredibly annoying way.

I hate a movie where the villain wants to punish the world for being bad. Have you ever seen Saw? Where he murders all these people, some of them are awful people, but others are just kind of screw ups or jerks, someone with a drug problem or who doesn't see their kid enough, people who are arguably the victims or are suffering themselves. And you think, wait, isn't the Saw guy a murderer? Isn't he a serial killer? Why doesn't he punish himself?

I cannot stand the villain who wants to punish the world for things that aren't even close to as bad as what the villain wants. Where the world would obviously be so much better served if the villain would just remove himself from the story rather than everyone else.

And then Spacey has to play him as autistic or whatever he was doing with his rainman choices.

Ultimately, what was the point of this movie? Don't be fat or an autistic man will torture and kill you? I think this movie's appeal is really just the horror elements, the horrifying scenarios, and not so much any cohesive point or interesting plot. It's truly just 'what if a guy tried to murder people with the theme of the 7 deadly sins' and then just figuring out a lazy way to make that work. If you like being marched through a series of horrifying themed murders, then this movie will do it for you, but every other part of it is just sort of lazily thrown in there because it has to be. Every character is lazily written, every plot element is just there because it has to be. It's just not a good movie. It's a bad movie done very well.