Fincher and Walker take these hackneyed ingredients, play with them in the context of a brilliantly cohesive plot, and present something consistently fresh -- and very, very dark.
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04/28/08
Seven (1995)
84 %
Reviews Counted: 49 Fresh: 41 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Synopsis: Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, and lust--these are the seven deadly sins that are being punished with unimaginable cruelty and calculation by an enigmatic killer in David Fincher's bleak thriller SEVEN. Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, John Cassini
Director: David Fincher
Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker
Producer: Phyllis Carlyle, Arnold Kopelson
Composer: Howard Shore
Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker
Producer: Phyllis Carlyle, Arnold Kopelson
Composer: Howard Shore
Reviews
Top Critic
Fincher handles the violence with sensitivity, announcing its obscenity in spoken analyses and briefly glimpsed post mortem shots, but never showing the murderous acts themselves.
06/24/06
Top Critic
The pace is fast and the shocks build beautifully. The actors within it all reel with convincing horror.
04/17/01
Top Critic
dark, gripping thriller which saves its most shocking revelations for the final scenes.
02/13/01
Top Critic
The filmmakers stick to their vision with such dedication and persistence that something indelible comes across--something ethically and artistically superior to The Silence of the Lambs that refuses to exploit suffering for fun or entertainment.
04/28/08
The situation is formulaic, but director David Fincher contrives a stylish, intentionally ugly look that transcends the pulp narrative.
04/28/08
Top Critic Top Critic
So chic, studied and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film.
03/31/08
The real star of Seven, however, is the gloom and doom of the setting: an unidentified blight of a modern city.
01/17/08
If you think you know where the story is going, think again. This movie has an unconventional ending worthy of the anti-hero movies of the Seventies.
02/03/07
The crime scenes are rendered in sickening detail, and the whole film has a murky, madly pretentious tone.
05/20/03
Top Critic
The angles, the faded tones, the close-ups and quick cutting to intense music were all so unusual and disconcerting I was caught off guard. I immediately felt both mesmerized and at risk. And that was just during the opening credits.
05/20/03
Both Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman give great performances in this film.
03/23/03
A harrowingly bleak vision that haunted me in the theatres and made my flesh slick with fear even on this recent re-viewing.
11/07/02
Eerie suspense film with a surprize ending that provides quite a jolt!
08/28/02
Viewers looking for a silver-screen gross-out will be disappointed, but others will appreciate this mature thriller, which proves once again that the best suspensers keep their violence off-camera.
06/05/02
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