Average Rating: 7.4/10
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Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 8
A brutal, relentlessly grimy shocker with taut performances, slick gore effects, and a haunting finale.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 6
A brutal, relentlessly grimy shocker with taut performances, slick gore effects, and a haunting finale.
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Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a homicide specialist just one week from a well-deserved retirement. Every minute of his 32 years on the job is evident in Somerset's worn, exhausted face, and his soul aches with the pain that can only come
Sep 22, 1995 Wide
Apr 14, 1997
New Line Cinema
All Critics (54) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (8) | DVD (44)
The filmmakers stick to their vision with such dedication and persistence that something indelible comes across--something ethically and artistically superior to The Silence of the Lambs that refuses to exploit suffering for fun or entertainment.
An intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching thriller.
So chic, studied and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film.
The crime scenes are rendered in sickening detail, and the whole film has a murky, madly pretentious tone.
Seven wants to abrade, not ingratiate.
Noticeable skill has gone into the making of Seven, but it's hard to take much pleasure in that.
Grim, slick, shocking thriller. Older teens only.
Despite some truly fantastic work throughout the '90s and 2000s, Se7en still remains director David Fincher's best film, albeit by a very narrow margin.
David Fincher is at the top of his form with Seven, one of the darkest, creepiest, and most brilliant serial killer pictures in American film history, far more interesting than Silence of the Lambs.
Fincher and Walker take these hackneyed ingredients, play with them in the context of a brilliantly cohesive plot, and present something consistently fresh -- and very, very dark.
The situation is formulaic, but director David Fincher contrives a stylish, intentionally ugly look that transcends the pulp narrative.
The real star of Seven, however, is the gloom and doom of the setting: an unidentified blight of a modern city.
The most disquieting and powerful Hollywood thriller in years.
If you think you know where the story is going, think again. This movie has an unconventional ending worthy of the anti-hero movies of the Seventies.
Fincher handles the violence with sensitivity, announcing its obscenity in spoken analyses and briefly glimpsed post mortem shots, but never showing the murderous acts themselves.
The opening credit sequence is a mini masterpiece of filmmaking.
The angles, the faded tones, the close-ups and quick cutting to intense music were all so unusual and disconcerting I was caught off guard. I immediately felt both mesmerized and at risk. And that was just during the opening credits.
Both Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman give great performances in this film.
A harrowingly bleak vision that haunted me in the theatres and made my flesh slick with fear even on this recent re-viewing.
What a thriller. After hearing about how this is arguably David Fincher's best work, I'm delighted to finally have seen "Se7en". It's a gut-wrenchingly, dark thriller with one of the most engaging yet mysterious narrative's in the crime-drama genre in recent memory. "Se7en" comes with its own share fair of flaws and
April 26, 2012Super Reviewer
Fincher's Crime/Thriller is possibly his greatest work on film. With a superb cast of Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow and *SPOILER* as the serial killer. This film is based on the seven deadly sins and the horrific remains that the killer leaves behind, while the detectives try to hunt him down. In order
February 16, 2012
Super Reviewer
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