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Summary: Don't buy this dvd yet!
Review: This is a great movie, but don't buy this dvd. Sometime soon the studio will release this in a 2 disc special edition. At present the disc that is available has only the movie and no extras. YOU also have to FLIP the disc over to watch the 2nd half of the movie...I found this very annoying. Wait for the special edition and you'll be happy you did.
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Summary: My Favorite THRILLER!!!
Review: I really really loved the movie manhunter. but when I first saw this movie I was completly blown away... I baught it for vhs right away and watched it atleast a dozen times, right when this DVD came out I got it and have watched it again atleast a dozen of times. its well worth the own and the re watches... my only problem with this dvd is you have to flip the disk.. this might be a newer updated version but I dont think it is.. the flipping is kind of annoying, but that aside the movie is spectacular!!!
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Summary: I love dark movies... I hated this.
Review: If you haven't seen the movie (just don't..ok? Go buy "Peeping Tom") skip the spoiler that's coming up. Let me emphasize that I love dark movies. I thought "Blue Velvet" was a charge of pure energy. Maybe this was too realistically disgusting or maybe it was just bad. Either way, I thought it was revolting and sadistic. Even if the movie's makers are getting such a kick from torture, there should be some kind of "wink" at the audience, an acknowledgement of evil within us all, or something. Or maybe I just want a different movie because I hated this so much. The atmosphere was fairly well done and Kevin Spacey is Kevin Spacey, which is of course to say, he's great. He has all your attention when he's on screen. The other leads are wasted or bad. Brad was just bad. The pacing is deadly slow in places -- one can't get by on atmosphere alone. To add insult to injury, the instant I saw Paltrow go all pink saying she was pregnant I knew that she was a goner. The exact nature of her demise was one I couldn't have guessed..until I saw..."the package"... At that point it was all I could to stop myself from tracking Morgan Freeman down and say..."Why, Morgan, WHY were you in this gory piece of claptrap?" The worst sort of Hollywood nonsense -- pointlessly violent, weighed down with a smarmy self-importance and twitchy bad acting from Brad Pitt -- AND predictable. Avoid. I'd rate it a minus, if I had that option. (Excluding Specey.)
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Summary: FABULOUS
Review: This is by far Fincher's best work ever. Brad Pitt gives a great performance and is good breaking the dark, dreary demeanor of the film. Sided along Morgan Freeman, the two detectives have excellent chemistry together as one is just starting out (Pitt) and the other who ready to call it quits (Freeman). The two are assigned to the case and Freeman discovers that the killer, who we know as "John Doe", is operating in a biblical fashion; hence the title after each of the deadly sins. The movie is gloomy (rains every scene except the last), dreary, and at times flat out disgusting. However, it all ties in together very well and the ending totally fits no matter what anyone says. As far as serial killer movies go, it is close to if not right up with Silence of the Lambs. Definitely since it came out there has not been a better one. Watch and thoroughly ENJOY!
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Summary: One of the best detective films EVER!
Review: David Fincher's "Seven" is a film that absolutely pulled me in every direction. The look of it alone is masterful. Both Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are excelent, as is Gweneth Paltrow and the guy who plays the killer here (if you don't know who it is I won't spoil it for you..) It is not the typical "cops chase killer" movie, and was unlike anything I've even seen before. Not a lot of gore, but several frightening and disturbing scenes including an ending that made me feel like I had been kicked in the stomach. Incredible.
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Summary: Don't look in the box,Brad
Review: A demented serial killer is gruesomely killing people who violate the seven deadly sins.World weary cop on the brink of retirement William Somerset(Morgan Freeman) and pluckly young dectetive David Mills(Brad Pitt) are assigned to the case. A devestating,draining film.The movie is quite an achievement.It manages to be horrifying and yet gripping and complusive at the same time.Intelligent,compelling and with a truly great performance from Freeman(even better here then he was in Shawshank Redemption). Superbly directed by David Finchner,who surprised everyone after he made the terrible Alien 3.A great film but beware.Some scenes are so disturbing they may linger long in the memory.
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Summary: For your safty, no food before the film.
Review: "Seven", although is sometimes downright disgusting, is actually a terrific movie. Morgan Freeman stars as Somerset, a verteran cop on the verge of retirement, and Brad Pitt as Mills, a young gun ready to take on anything. After the two of them get their first case, they begin to discover that the murders they're investigating are not just at random, but as part of the seven deadly sins. The movie's killer is excellent, but I ain't going to tell you who it is, but that just ruins the ending. "Seven" is a great film, and is certainly worth your time and money. If you can stomach it, that is.
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Summary: brilliant film
Review: This the best thriller of all time..no doubt about! The plot is gruesome and gets you into the movie from the get go. The acting is beyond belife, with the amazin trio providing the fireworks (freeman, pit and spacey). But the thing that really makes this movie stand out are the last 20 mins. The dialouge that Pitt has with Spacey is instilled with social cyncism and profound thought, it really is beyond words. Well, the ending is also a thing not to be forgoten, one of the most imaginative scripts/plots/movies of all time. "let envy be my sin" Oi oi Oi!
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Summary: I wish you folks hadn't named the killer in your reviews....
Review: I found the actor's omission from the dust jacket credits an ideal way to guarantee a surprise.....thanks for spoiling it for those who have yet to see the film. A refreshingly bleak, merciless portrait of urbania's skeleton.....the side we rarely see. This film earns a place of honor on my video shelf, next to "Blade Runner","LA Confidential", "The Silence of the Lambs", and others. Pitt could have been better (and less annoying), but Freeman turns in a great performance, as always, with his purposeful, precise, well-cultured manner. Director Fincher's presence is unmistakable, given the dreariness of the film, but it lacks the documentary-realism of "The Silence of the Lambs". Faults aside, it's an excellent, moody piece of work, far above such shoddy "Lambs" imitators like "The Bone Collector." (shudder)
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Summary: Not your typical Hollywood movie
Review: We have all grown up with this idea of what a hero in a movie should be: impulsive, idealistic, and young. If you don't agree with me see how many movies you can come up with where the hero is cautious, apathetic, and old. In this movie we get both sets of characters in Detective Mills and Somerset. What makes this movie stand apart is that Fincher (the director) has the guts to show the audience that being that steroetypcial hero might not be all that its cracked up to be. Another reason that its very atypical is its views on violence. When Somerset talks about society's apathy towards crime its like he's talking to the audience. The audience itself is numb to the kind of violence he is talking about as they sit there listening to his very lines. To them it is just one more of a thousand films that has left them unfeeling. What puts the movie a notch up from others is how psychological it is. The only person who understands what Somerset is saying is the killer. The reason John Doe does what he does is because he is fed up with society's lack of concern over these sins. What must be going on in Somerset's mind when he realizes the same thing that is driving him into retirement is the same thing that causes the killer to do the horrible things that he does? Its apparent the theme of the movie is society's apathy toward sin. The more important question is what solution does it offer? Its not John Doe's way. It isn't Somerset's thoughts of running away from it all either. At the end of the movie the audience is left with the idea that Somerset knows he can't leave, "I'll be around" he says, and that he feels that the "world is worth fighting for." A little vague on the details as its the closest we get to answer. To have a successful movie today one needs a behemoth of a marketing campaign, lots of special effects, and a consistent effort to choose style over substance. Imagine trying to sell this movie on a happy meal.
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