Wednesday, April 06, 2011

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)



5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love a movie with a happy ending.

Yes, the IS how much I hate Paltrow.

BlogDog

Anonymous said...

Sorry - "that IS how much"
frikkin netbook keyboard and frikkin tree stump fingers!

BD

Chadd said...

Hated the "you're better than him" aspect of the ending. If the Brad Pitt character had been a real human being, he would have put his pistol in the killer's mouth and pulled the trigger until it went *click*. Other than that, great movie.

Chadd in FL

Anonymous said...

Thelma & Louise had a happy ending.......
Tim

Anonymous said...

RE: Thelma & Louise had a happy ending.......

WTF? They killed a great car and polluted the Grand Canyon!

There had to be a better way to off those stupid Bill Mahers.

Freddie Sykes

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