[EPICS FAIL] Movie Review: “Seven Pounds”
January 2nd, 2009 by Shelby Murphy“… may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made,” The New York Times.
The New York Times gets me.
I cannot get over this movie and how terrible it was.
Absurd SPOILER ALERT after the jumpWill Smith dies in the bathroom because of a jellyfish.
My thoughts:
For a movie that was marketed as a mystery, there was little doubt to what was occuring. Furthermore, by exploring a new relationship rather than previous relationships, the film took what I considered to be the easy way out by avoiding the complex relationships except in small scenes. Barry Pepper, who’s character in interesting and complex, is in only a few minutes of the movie. There’s a good movie to be found in the ideas of Seven Pounds. This film, however, isn’t willing to risk enough to become that movie. It’s not to say it’s a bad movie, by any means. It’s just not an impressive movie or a smart movie.
Will O'Hargan
January 2nd, 2009