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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: If you like scary movies, crime stories, or just plain freaky stuff, you will love Seven. It has a great cast including, Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt as the two detectives chasing the twisted killer. Gweneth Paltrow as Brad's wife (who has a more important part than you'd think). And last but absolutley not least Kevin Spacey as the serial killer himself, John Doe. Spacey has only about 20 to 25 minutes screentime, but he delivers one of the best performances in his career (next to The Usual Suspects and American Beauty). Spacey's John Doe will definately go up there with Hannibal Lecter and Keyser Soze as one of the best movie villans ever. The movie is wonderful because it never does exactly what you think it will (expecially in the ending wich will give you chills for days). So see the movie and the next time you feel Greed or Envy think twice.
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Summary: David Fincher is the man!
Review: This flick had my palms sweating and my teeth clenched. To me it surpassed Demme's Silence of the Lambs. A real freaky tour de force, incredibly directed by David Fincher and well acted by Pitt and Freeman.
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Summary: This movie's okay
Review: Crazy guy kills people for commiting the seven sins and tricks the cops who catch him. A lot more complex than that description. Awesome killer, great dialogue, but the execution is very sloppy. Some of the images are hard to stomach. For your safety: popcorn only.
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Summary: there is something there but not much
Review: Yet another movie made from reusable parts of older ones. It is not smart either, just consider an idea that FBI keeps track of all books taken in all libraries and this is the only way to a suspect. However, there is something still in it.
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Summary: Sinister masterpiece
Review: Seven rides in on a barrage of an almost slashed to death movie genre - the serial killer flick. Way up there at the top of them all we have classical chillers like Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs to the pompously ludicrous teen slashers of late, um Urban Legend, I know what you did Last Summer spring to mind. So were does Seven mangage to fit into all of this. Seven is buy far one of the most cleverly written and disturbing chillers around. Serial killer John Doe (Spacey) deserves his place along the psycho hall of celluloid fame amongst the likes of Hannibal Lector and Norman Bates. When a body is found by the two leading protagonists, Pitt and Freeman, all evidence points to the new emergance of a sick and twisted mind. It soon becomes clear that the killer is using the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi, in order to cleanse the world of all its past misforgivings. In your face direction by Fincher and one of the most gut wrenching climaxes ever seen on film will jangle the nerves and leave you shaken and stirred. Spending 2 hours in the company of a complete madman has never been more haunting and unforgettable as Seven, the exeption being Lector in the Lambs. Not for the squeamish or faint of heart.
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Summary: Wait for Re-Release
Review: Seven is a great film, but there is going to be a re-release that is a 2 disc set full of extras and it will be on one side.
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Summary: Fincher never fails
Review: Many people called this Brad Pitt's movie which is completely bogus, though he was good, but as far as acting goes Morgan Freeman has total control. Always trust David Fincher to make a dark, disturbing, beautiful movie. He has never made a bad one except for Aliens 3, but that was only because of studio pressure and the producers making the final cut. Don't blame David for that one.
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Summary: Great movie...but
Review: Seven is a great movie. The screenplay, direction, and cinematography are all first rate. There are also some very compelling performances by Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey. But the DVD version has a major flaw...you have to flip it over to watch the rest of the movie. This was not what I expected when I bought this movie, or my DVD player for that matter. Hold out for that rumored re-release where they actually fit the whole movie on one side.
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Summary: Good on VHS
Review: Okay - the movie was good. I have no complaints about the movie. And I don't own a DVD player, so I don't know about the quality of the DVD... (I can't review it on VHS, because it's not available on VHS) It was good. Morgan Freeman, the beautiful Brad Pitt, the talented Gwyneth Paltrow... Could one ask for anymore?Possibly. If you've got DVD, you've got alot to complain about... I mean, what is this about TURNING OVER THE DVD? If you buy the DVD, you shouldn't have to turn it over to watch the rest of the movie... But hey - I'm not complaining. It was a good movie.
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Summary: THE ONLY REVIEW YOU NEED TO READ
Review: New line cinema is working on the SPECIAL EDITION re-release of this dvd to be released hopefully in march or april 2000. It will be a single sided, anamorphically enhanced version, something the first dvd release was not. It will also contain commentary with David Fincher, Morgan Freeman, and Brad Pitt, as well as alternate scenes and story boards. It will be very similar to the previosly released Criterion Laserdisc, if not Identical. The Currently available DVD was two sided to improve picture quality. By spacing the film out over two sides, they could reduce the compression rate. This disc was also released before the days of dual layered discs. But seeing as how it cost me twenty bucks, watched it 20 times, and I had it for 2 years, Id say I got my moneys worth out of it. I just wouldnt buy this particular disc anymore.
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