SE7EN

Today's Slightly Delayed Movie Review SE7EN (1995)

CAST Brad Pitt    Morgan Freeman     Gwyneth Paltrow     R. Lee Ermey    Kevin Spacey That cast alone ought be enough, so I don't know how I not only missed this, but never heard of it until AMC played it recently.  On second thought, that entire cast were relatively unknown sixteen years ago.  Paltrow, for instance, was still about a decade removed from moving her kids to England because living in America under Bush was unbearable.  Anyway, and I'm not making this up, somewhere about ¼ of the way into this potboiler,  I thought, "if the limo pulled up to take me to the airport right now, I'd skip the flight." “   A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while green Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer... [IMDB] ” I was looking for a trailer and guess what?  YouTube has the whole freaking movie in several parts.  AMC is still playing it, but with a good hour of commercials, so tape it.  NetFlix - not on Instant Watch; Amazon - Ditto ($3.99 rental)