Muccino lays on the melodrama so thick that I felt like I needed a shower by the end, and instead of shedding a tear, I couldn't wait to get out of the theater.
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12/19/08
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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
Love or hate the film, Smith's performance in Seven Pounds is one of his best.
12/19/08
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
A clumsily melodramatic movie that tells us too much too soon and forces us to sit through endless morose vacuousness.
03/10/09
But even without the head-shaker ending, the movie would have been a failure due to Smith's lackadaisical performance.
12/18/08
It's only Smith's performance that makes the tears worth crying.
12/17/08
...a dumb movie put together by people who think they're a lot smarter than their prospective audience.
12/19/08
Seven Pounds is a clever one, all right, but it might actually be too clever for its own good.
12/18/08
Top CriticThat big twist at the end... if you go back and analyze it -- I’m not sure it holds up, but I don’t think it really matters all that much.
12/22/08
I think it’s just kind of average but Rosario Dawson is great and worthy of some type of recognition throughout this award show season.
12/22/08
The film, while slow moving, is worth the wait for the emotional payoff.
12/24/08
Smith is more likable the less he tries to make us like him.
12/17/08
Smith’s quest is the worst kind of sentimental gimmick: He’s like Oskar Schindler and Oprah rolled into one. But credit Smith and Pursuit Of Happyness director Gabriele Muccino for keeping the tone solemn and muted.
12/19/08
The whole narrative is too hollow and rickety as well as gimmicky for Muccino to breathe much life into it.
12/19/08
Smith is a good actor, but he's lost it here. The film can be nauseating in its overbearing use of unbridled sentiment.
12/27/08
Its decision to portray behavior that is at best morally compromised as an idealized sacrifice is a poor choice as an ethical matter and as a narrative matter.
12/18/08
The good, Will Smith is a brilliant actor. The bad, Seven Pounds isn't nearly as brilliant as Will Smith.
06/10/09
The pacing of the film is painfully slow that by the time one gets to the payoff at the end and understands what's going on, you may be fighting to remember what happened during the film if you stayed awake for it.
12/21/08
Too often the movie's preposterous ideas of goodly sacrifice blur the line between altruism and self-importance.
12/19/08
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