Melancholy Will Smith film about extreme selflessness.
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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
The outcome will make you want to throw a shoe at the screen.
12/19/08
It'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 CriticMuccino doesn't even do a credible job of keeping the supposedly earth-shattering secret -- an event finally depicted in full during the movie's climax.
12/19/08
It 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 CriticLong after I'd stopped thinking about the movie's central gimmick, Smith's performance still stuck with me.
12/19/08
Slow and sappy. ... Prepare to gag.
12/19/08
A convoluted tearjerker complete with murky camerawork and even murkier emotions.
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
A slow, improbable and very mawkish drama.
12/19/08
It affirms life as something enormous and important, not small, not meaningless, but monumental and worthy of big statements.
12/19/08
Top CriticAiming for profound, Seven Pounds stalls at maddeningly coy.
12/19/08
On an emotional level, one could decree that the movie is satisfying. On an intellectual level, it's disappointingly shallow.
12/19/08
Top CriticA case study in overkill.
12/19/08
Top CriticA self-styled romantic tragedy that doesn't know it's a horror movie.
12/19/08
The movie gets just enough right that the things it doesn't get right (beyond its overdependence on a not-so-surprising story puzzle) smack you cold in the face.
12/19/08
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 script, by Grant Nieporte, seems to fundamentally misunderstand its moral themes.
12/19/08
The 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 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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