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.
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12/22/08
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Seven Pounds (2008)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:12
Rotten:22
Average Rating:5/10
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
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
Top CriticIt's a lovely performance [by Dawson], in part because her character throws every charm she's got at the one man who seems doomed to deflect it.
12/19/08
Top CriticIt takes the soggy cake for multiple layers of sentimentality topped by indigestible grandiosity.
12/19/08
Top CriticYou will either be frustrated with its asymmetrical and manipulative storytelling or be captivated by scattered clues that ultimately lead to some kind of resolution.
12/19/08
Top CriticIt affirms life as something enormous and important, not small, not meaningless, but monumental and worthy of big statements.
12/19/08
Top CriticOn an emotional level, one could decree that the movie is satisfying. On an intellectual level, it's disappointingly shallow.
12/19/08
Top CriticA case study in overkill.
12/19/08
Top CriticThe script, by Grant Nieporte, seems to fundamentally misunderstand its moral themes.
12/19/08
Top CriticThe whole thing ends in what's meant to be a spectacular act of selfless generosity -- but really plays as mad, messianic egoism.
12/19/08
Top CriticThe sad truth is that if you laid this movie out chronologically -- and maybe if you don't -- not a whole lot of it makes any sense.
12/19/08
Top CriticYou'll have plenty of time for your mind to wander; feel free to spend some of it imagining what this imposing pair could do with the right material.
12/19/08
Top CriticSeven Pounds is a difficult story, multilayered, spare and full of detail, thoughtfully told.
12/19/08
Top CriticI would tell you to go out and see it for yourself, but you might take that as a recommendation rather than a plea for corroboration. Did I really see what I thought I saw?
12/19/08
Top CriticWhen an actor reaches a summit of unparalleled global popularity, it is probably hard to resist the temptation to play God.
12/19/08
Top CriticThe 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 CriticIt's probably safe to argue that never before has the spirit of giving been pushed any higher. How high? According to my altimeter, to that oxygen-deprived point where lachrymose meets laughable.
12/19/08
Top CriticSeven Pounds features the best performance by a jellyfish in a film this year. Really, the thing is mesmerizing.
12/19/08
Top CriticNot all holiday cheer need come in broad comedic strokes to warm the multiplex throngs.
12/19/08
Top CriticIt's impossible to talk about the movie without revealing the least little thing about its secret. And the secret is so flimsy, absurd and obvious that, if we write about it at all, you could figure it out from almost the moment the movie starts.
12/19/08
Top CriticLatest News for Seven Pounds
January 16, 2009:
UK Critics Consensus: The Wrestler Pile-drives The Critics, But Don’t Waste any £s on Seven Pounds
With critical success for Slumdog Millionaire last week (94%), we have more award-friendly fare in the UK cinemas this Friday in Darren Aronofsky's spandex-tastic The Wrestler.... More...
December 28, 2008:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Marley Takes #1, The Spirit Tanks
This weekend people were in the mood for movies over Christmas weekend as multiplexes were jam-packed with customers that powered four different new releases to more than $30M... More...
December 22, 2008:
Will Smith as widower wracked with guilt. 
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December 21, 2008:
Smith, in his typical impressive pressure cooker character fashion, is a nervous wreck suicidal IRS agent who raises pet jellyfish, and seems to enjoy harassing when not stalking his clients. Paging Dr. Kevorkian.
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