
A film about two homicide detectives' (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) 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" (Kevin Spacey) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the... (Full plot summary below)
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A film about two homicide detectives' (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) 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" (Kevin Spacey) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset 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 but jaded Somerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills (Pitt) scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...
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| Midwest Film Journal Nick RogersIt's about magnitudes of corruptibility and fallibility, how we all fall prey to them and yet, so we hope, press on. Watching as a teenager in 1995, I felt the fear of what could test me. Today, I watch and fear that I've not yet really been tested. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaCria um mundo opressivo, cinza e angustiante que parece determinado a constantemente lembrar seus ocupantes de que a vida é cruel, injusta e sem sentido. |
| Radio TimesAlan JonesSeven is a work of extraordinary style, upsetting power and narrative daring. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid KeyesFor nearly every movie about a sadistic criminal that would come after, some part of us recalls the words of Detective Somerset, who may be one of the first men in mainstream cinema that dares to ask why we easily dismiss serial killers as lunatics. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarThe odd thing about Seven, however, is that except for its facile, familiar and ridiculously gimmicky plot, it's a pretty involving murder mystery. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenSo chic, studied and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film. |
| NetflixJames RocchiA harrowingly bleak vision that haunted me in the theatres and made my flesh slick with fear even on this recent re-viewing. |
| MovielineStephen FarberWhat Freeman brings to the movie is humanity at the heart of a nightmare. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames KendrickAn unsettling serial killer police procedural that, for two hours, gets under your skin viscerally until it delivers the final blow with an unexpected ending that is as bold and shocking as it is terribly logical. |
| The RingerSean FennesseyThe stormy, sooty, blackened unnamed city in David Fincher's murder mystery feels a little like hell-infested with cretins, sinners, and pretty boys with a death wish-and that sure makes me think Se7en is one of the foremost horror movies of modern times. |