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Seven - or Se7en as it was marketed here - is directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Freeman plays a retiring cop hoping to escape the eternally dreary and grim city in which he has been working with the homicide squad for many years. Looking to replace him is an ambitious young police officer played by Pitt. Between them they try to track down the culprit behind a series of killings based on the seven deadly sins getting ever closer to the deadly psychopath.
This is the film that really made me take notice of David Fincher as a director. The rainy city provides a classic film noir backdrop with its depressing anonymity. Almost as soon as the film begins you share the weariness of Freeman's Detective Somerset as the drudgery and unpleasantness of his onerous task of policing this foul city really hits home. By comparison, Pitt's young Detective Mills is the epitome of a go-getting city cop with his fiery temperament and cocky attitude. Fincher is excellent at creating these sorts of 'opposites-attract' relationships without them seeming false or cartoonish.
The acting in this film is superb. Morgan Freeman is excellent as the worldweary father figure trying to rein in his young protege. His relationship with Mills' wife - played by Gwyneth Paltrow - is also interestingly drawn as you get a sense that he could provide her with the life that Mills' blind ambition prohibits.
The killings themselves are devilishly well thought out, with each making clear references to the seven deadly sins but not being gratuitous about it. They hint at the horror of the scenes without relying on cheap shock tactics every 5 minutes. This minutes that when something shocking did happen, I leapt out of my seat!
I don't want to say too much more about this as I don't want to give too much away. Sufficed to say, this is one of my favourite thrillers and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Brad Pitt ('Legends Of The Fall)' and Academy Award-nominee Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank ... more
Redemption') star in this sinister and gripping mystery-thriller about a pair of homicide detectives who must solve a puzzling series of horrific murders based on...
Advantages: Great acting, Gripping, Shocking, Macabre directing Disadvantages: Some unconvincing acting, Plot could have been developed more, Silly title
srtom 16.06.2004 (16.06.2004)
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