Seven Pounds can feel too heavy at times but Smith carries the film.
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01/16/09
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.
Australian Rating: TBC
Genre: Dramas
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jan 8, 2009 Wide
US 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
Reviews for Seven Pounds
21 - 40 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Seven Pounds is a profoundly irritating mystery about a profoundly silly man.
01/16/09
Top CriticA supremely annoying film.
01/16/09
Top CriticThis is a 24-carat wallow in weapons grade mawkishness.
01/16/09
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01/16/09
Top CriticSeven Pounds feels like having Love Story and Beaches burnt onto your retinas in the style of A Clockwork Orange. But hang on for the finale...
01/16/09
Top CriticThe worst movie ever to star Will Smith, this is a morbid drama which is meant to reduce its audience to tears of empathy, but reduced me to groans and helpless laughter.
01/16/09
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.
01/16/09
Seven Pounds is Will trying to be weighty but unlike The Pursuit Of Happyness (also directed by Muccino) it doesn’t work.
01/16/09
Top CriticSeven 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
Soppy romance and excruciating piety cling to the film like bindweed, summoning the ghost of sobfest Pay It Forward, with the divine parallels of self-sacrifice taken to extremes of righteous absurdity.
01/16/09
mith’s charisma holds the interest, even if this and his other recent movies (I Am Legend and Hancock) suggest the only thing bigger than his ears is his Messiah complex.
01/16/09
Ill conceived, poorly written and badly directed drama, featuring a career worst performance from Will Smith.
01/16/09
Will Smith is fast turning into the movie actor's Reader's Digest - an uplifting guide to healthy living and doing worthy things.
01/15/09
[Smith] has all the angst and gravitas of a school child pulling a straight face at assembly.
01/09/09
Top CriticMelodramatic and manipulative, but passionate.
01/06/09
Another note worthy Will Smith film and this one should not be missed out on.
01/04/09
The film's relentlessly somber tone becomes alienating. It's hard to care what the conclusion is if only more gloom awaits.
01/03/09
As the convoluted structure finally reveals the actual plot, it brings with it the unmistakable whiff of a vanity project
01/01/09
... the toll of self-imposed guilt and responsibility is a tangible thing... no more of a stretch than a man who ages backwards or a billionaire dressed like a giant bat.
12/30/08
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December 21, 2008:
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