Seven (Se7en) (1995)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 54
Fresh: 46 | Rotten: 8
A brutal, relentlessly grimy shocker with taut performances, slick gore effects, and a haunting finale.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 12 | 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
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Cast
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Brad Pitt
David Mills -
Morgan Freeman
William Somerset -
Gwyneth Paltrow
Tracy Mills -
Kevin Spacey
John Doe -
R. Lee Ermey
Police Captain -
Richard Roundtree
Talbot -
Julie Araskog
Mrs. Gould -
Lexie D. Bigham
Sweating Cop at Massage... -
Mark Boone Jr.
Greasy FBI Man -
Gene Borkan
Eli Gould (Sin of Greed... -
Reg E. Cathey
Coroner -
George Christy
Workman -
David Correia
Cop at Massage Parlour -
Peter Crombie
Dr. O'Neill -
Brian Evers
Duty Sergeant -
Hawthorne James
George Library Night Gu... -
Dominique Jennings
TV News Reporter -
Michael Reid Mackay
Victor (Sin of Sloth) -
Michael Massee
Man in Massage Parlour ... -
John C. McGinley
California -
Richard Portnow
Dr. Beardsley -
Richard Schiff
Mark Swarr -
Tudor Sherrard
Coupon Man -
Charles Tamburro
SWAT Helicopter Pilot -
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Harrison White
Cop on SWAT Team -
Shannon Wilcox
Cop Behind Desk -
Allan Kolman
Forensic Man -
John Cassini
Officer Davis -
Andrew Kevin Walker
Opening Scene Corpse (u... -
Leland Orser
Crazed Man in Massage P... -
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Bob Collins
Library Guard -
Bob Stephenson
Cop on SWAT Team
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All Critics (55) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (52) | 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.
Top CriticAn intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching thriller.
So chic, studied and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film.
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 crime scenes are rendered in sickening detail, and the whole film has a murky, madly pretentious tone.
Seven wants to abrade, not ingratiate.
... An unrelenting examination of the evil that may or may not be festering inside every one of us.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Seven (Se7en)
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- William Somerset: I am hugely overrated.
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- William Somerset: 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.
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- David Mills: Who knows. So many freaks out there doin' their little evil deeds they don't wanna do... 'The voices made me do it. My dog made me do it. Jodie Foster told me to do it.'
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- David Mills: I've been trying to figure something in my head, and maybe you can help me out, yeah? When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Maybe you're just sitting around, reading 'Guns and Ammo', masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, 'Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!'? Yeah. Do you guys do that?
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- David Mills: C'mon, he's insane. Look. Right now he's probably dancing around in his grandma's panties, yeah, rubbing himself in peanut butter.
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- William Somerset: This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient.
- David Mills: He's a nut-bag! Just because the fucker's got a library card doesn't make him Yoda!
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Foreign Titles
- Sieben (DE)
- Seven (UK)
