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Summary: A disturbing movie.
Review: A madman is on the loose, he is killing people in a sinister fashion. The city assigns two cops a older Black cop, and a white Hot shot cop. The gist is that the murdering is killing each person to represent one of the Seven deadly sins. The movie was well filmed, and almost has a noir felling about it. The ending is truly disturbing I must warn you. On to the DVD itself. THe tranfer was done quite well. Sound is good. There are effectively zero features. Yes there is a trailer and yes there is a Bio of all the stars, but I really have begun to expect more from a DVD.
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Summary: Revenge
Review: What a sick and yet quite intellengent individual to commit the murders with a message! Kevin did a superb job, I hated him. And would have killed him myself if he had done the unspeakable to one that I love.
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Summary: Hell on earth
Review: "Seven" is a film that achieves the rare distinction of being a thoughtful crowd pleaser. Unfortunately, the public seems to have been taken largely with the surface elements only, the suspense and the gore. The film is indeed a visual masterpiece, in look and feel borrowing inspiration from the nightmarish works of such photographers as Joel Peter Witkin and Matt Mahurin. The performances are superb, particularly Freeman and another actor I won't mention. (Those who've seen it will know who I mean.) Director David Fincher is clearly in synch with Andrew Kevin Walker's riveting screenplay. All of this makes for superlative entertainment, but there's much more here than just an exciting story. The message of "Seven" is the primary reason for it's importance. On the surface, "Seven" is an ingenious thriller detailing the hunt for a particularly pernicious serial killer who, with great aesthetic imagination, dispatches his victims using the seven deadly sins as his model, one victim per sin. The hunters are two detectives. The first is Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a tired, very jaded man only days away from retirement who sees little good in human nature and has given up hope of ever improving the world around him. The other is Mills (Brad Pitt), green and full of fire for righting the many wrongs in society. This attitude provokes only sad amusement from Somerset, who views it as the product of a naive mind. The two are made partners in the search for John Doe, the mysterious psychopath of the piece, and the opposing viewpoints held by these two men form the basis of the conflict in the film. "Seven" poses these questions: Why is the world so full of darkness, violence, selfishness, and cruelty? Just who is responsible? Is the act of sinning the exclusive domain of serial killers and other extreme reprobates? Or is it possible that we ourselves, in our own less noticeable way, contribute to the everyday hell that the nameless city in the film represents? In a moving scene early in the film, the investigative styles of the two detectives are contrasted. Somerset sets to work in a public library, edifying himself calmly through the study of books as to the killer's possible inspirations for his murders, while the young Mills mentally struggles with the case at home using a brain so lacking in knowledge and education as to be utterly useless. It is a sequence celebrating the beauty and power of learning, without which wisdom and compassion are likely to be developed. Without these things, the chances for a better world are slim. In the end, "Seven" is a deeply moral film, a dark cry of anguish over the state of human behavior. It sees very little hope of ever reversing the natural self-serving impulses of the average human being, yet it demands that we not turn away. It demands that we make the effort to improve the world and ourselves.
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Summary: Seven best movie ever!
Review: All I can say about the movie is that it isx the best movie ever! Two great actors (brad pitt and morgan freeman) and worlds best director David Fincher (alien 3 and Fight club) Just watch Se7en and enjoy!
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Summary: Seven Deadly Sins Worth Committing
Review: Seven is one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. Perhaps this statement is too vague. Well, consider the story. A serial killer named Jon Doe, played flawlessly by Kevin Spacey, who is disgusted with society and considers it his destiny to rid the world of seven people who have committed one of the seven deadly sins. From the writers, actors to the set crew, each deadly sin is showcased with perfection and mystery. I must say that Brad Pitt moved to the next level of acting with his role as the novice detective partnered with Morgan Freeman. Freeman is depicted as the rusty old detective who can no longer apathize with society of it's decay. However instead of retirement, Freeman stays on in an attempt to help Pitt stop Jon Doe before he nails all seven sins. After seeing Seven, I tried to imagine what other quality actors might have been chosen instead of Morgan Freeman. None came to mind. While I'm raving about the actors of this film, I must say I fell in love with Spacey. Words cannot describe the abilty of this man. Spacey didn't PLAY a serial killer. He became one. His ability to transform himself into Jon Doe was the tip in to making Seven a five star film. Don't rent it. Buy it. You WILL watch it more than once!
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Summary: Excellent Film, good UK production
Review: Not sure if this has been released in the States yet. If not, Multiregion owners should consider the European disc, Double layer, single sided, 16:9 widescreen. Not a flipper disc, which should cheer up the guy from LA
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Summary: The best film meditation on evil ever
Review: A lot of other reviewers keep comparing Seven to Silence of the Lambs; I think what makes this valid is that, like Lambs, most of the most disturbing imagery in Seven occurs in your own head. Remember the turnkey showing Clarice the picture of the nurse Lechter bit? We never saw it, and our salivating imaginations produced a special effect worse than anything the filmakers could have. In Seven, the worst bits are the decriptions of Doe's methods and the autopsy results (the actor playing Lust conjures up Hell on Earth with his account of the tryst with the hooker). I said salivating earlier because I think another point of this movie is to make the viewer address his/her own apathy towards our shared moral decline. On SOME level, John Doe's perceptions make sense--no, not to the degree that one would advocate his actions, but his argument with Pitt about "only in a (blank blank) world like this would these people be called innocent" had merit. It also questions our opinion about crime and punishment--the swat team member leaning over the nearly dead pedophile and telling him he deserved his torture weighs heavy in the chest. I sat up half the night with a close friend after seeing this and discussed it--we felt like we had to, just to get it in some logical place in our heads before we could sleep. I don't think saying I loved this movie is accurate or appropriate; rather, I appreciated and understood it.
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Summary: Griping thriller
Review: I've always liked Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Putting them in a movie together was enough to make it great. The cast is so great it would be impossible to mess this movie up. This movie has so much potential and not an ounce is wasted. So if you have two hours free and can sit through some very gruesome material (very gruesome), then sit back, and watch carefully.
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Summary: Horrifying.
Review: Horrormaster Clive Barker once said: "There are no stories, only new ways to tell." Of course, a man who kills supposedly randomly picked people and forces them to act out each a deadly sin, IS refreshingly original and eye catching, sure it is. Yet, what I think Fincher does, is, he takes a liberty with Agatha Christie's "Ten little Indians". In Christie's book(for those who don't know), ten people are murdered accordingly to the demise of each little indian in the nursery rhyme. You can pretty much see the similarities between the two straight away, without even so much as watching the movie (or reading the book for that matter)- and that is pretty much until where I go without giving out much more of the movie. People compare it to "Silence of the Lambs"...because basically, in a nutshell, both are films about cops tracking down a serial killer. Jonathan Demme's approach to it tends to be more of a psychological nature. I like to say that "Silence of the Lambs" is a film to mess with your mind...where "Seven" is a film to mess with your nerves. Is it unpleasant and tense? Yes. Is it dark and dreary? Yes, of course it is. Isn't that kind of job pretty much unpleasant, tense, dark and dreary too? It's a great contemporary masterpiece, brilliantly executed, expertly aided by Howard Shore's brilliant musical score.
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Summary: One of the BEST EVER!
Review: One of the most twisted films ever made. It grips you with suspense and pulls you into the action. Seven is certainly a must have on DVD, the clairity and perfection of the picture quality is amazing! My VHS copy of this movie doesn't compare to it... of course, Seven has always been one of my all-time favorite movies anyway. The twist in this movie will astound you, maybe even freak you out completely... it did me! MUST HAVE FOR YOUR COLLECTION if of you love PITT, SPACEY, FREEMAN, & PALTROW! Incredible!
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