Melancholy Will Smith film about extreme selflessness.
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12/19/08
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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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
Muccino 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
Long 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
Aiming 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
A case study in overkill.
12/19/08
A 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
Latest News for Seven Pounds
January 16, 2009:
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December 22, 2008:
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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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