It is a complex movie, but also an absorbing and moving one - and in truth Will Smith does bring an extra dose of class that helps it succeed.
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01/16/09
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Seven Pounds (2008)
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Reviews Counted:172
Fresh:47
Rotten:125
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Grim and morose, Seven Pounds is also undone by an illogical plot.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 19, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $69,951,824
Synopsis: Academy Award® nominee Will Smith reunites with the directors and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for the emotional drama Seven Pounds. In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with... [More]
Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Barry Pepper
Director: Gabriele Muccino
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Reviews for Seven Pounds
To say that Seven Pounds is an odd film is an understatement--it's often downright bizarre. What's even crazier is that the damned thing kinda sorta works
12/20/08
Seven Pounds compounds the schmaltz in a tale of goody-goody benefaction and glutinous redemption, whose plot the distributors mercifully injunct us from revealing.
01/16/09
Melancholy Will Smith film about extreme selflessness.
12/19/08
If you're in the market for a quality tearjerker, my advice is to stop reading this review now, avoid the film's revealing trailers and go see it with as blank a slate as possible.
12/19/08
The final act leaves a melodramatic and manipulative residue that no amount of tears can wash away.
12/22/08
If there were a way to do a secular passion play, this would be it.
12/22/08
I wanted to be left bawling like a little baby, this story has that potential. But when Ben gets distracted with Emily, so does the entire film. We almost forget Ben is on a focused (albeit depressed) journey.
12/19/08
Put your faith in Will Smith and by his sacrifice ye will be reborn.
12/19/08
The only person you'll want to cry for is yourself, for having been fooled into sitting through the whole thing.
12/18/08
On an emotional level, one could decree that the movie is satisfying. On an intellectual level, it's disappointingly shallow.
12/19/08
Top CriticAs the intricate plotting slowly gives way to the deeply felt, expertly played romance between Ben and Emily, the movie finds its heart.
12/21/08
The film closes on a meeting between two characters that’s now wayyyy high on my list of weirdest moments in cinema. It is, I think, supposed to be touching.
12/19/08
Top Critic"Seven Pounds" is like one of those little kids' puzzles with six or seven big pieces that once you fit a couple together, the others easily fall into place.
12/19/08
A supremely annoying film.
01/16/09
Only the most morbidly inattentive viewer could possibly fail to figure out virtually every twist in the story from details supplied in the first five minutes.
12/22/08
Where the weird government employee, who lives in a hotel that rents by the hour and buys sting rays for his aquarium, gets tested.
12/19/08
With their latest collaboration, it seems as if [Smith and Muccino] were engaged in the pursuit of crappyness.
12/21/08
An unconvincing drama masquerading as a spiritual tale of redemption and sacrificial love.
12/19/08
Más allá de lo caprichoso de la historia, e incluso de lo fragmentario del relato -a lo 21 Gramos- es innegable la capacidad que exhibe Muccino para atrapar la atención del espectador.
03/04/09
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December 22, 2008:
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December 21, 2008:
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