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CAST
- Brad Pitt
- Morgan Freeman
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- R. Lee Ermey
- Kevin Spacey
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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."
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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] |
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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)
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